piracy
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This year's figures, however, remain far below those recorded in 2011, when piracy in the region peaked.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Fears of data piracy and legal liability are rational dissuaders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Netflix in a statement said it is conducting an investigation and is offering to monitor piracy sites for any unauthorized distribution or sale of the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
There have also been several unsuccessful attacks in a region where piracy appears to be making a comeback.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
“You’d better not be lying to me, boy. I don’t fancy a life of piracy, so you’d better damn well be right.”
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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Three are found in Article I, Section 8: counterfeiting, piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against international law.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
The piracies represented an oddly terrifying juxtaposition of technology and barbarism, an almost science-fiction quality of civilization in a retrograde time machine, stranded abruptly in a desert waste.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then one Carausius, an officer in command of the fleet stationed in the Channel for the suppression of piracies, assumed the title of emperor.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
Lynn is in the temperate zone, and we should naturally reason that its piracies would be more calm and equable than those of the tropics, and so they were.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
Or, most likely, he is from the Havana, or from some port on the Spanish Main, and comes to make investigation about the piracies which our Governor is thought to connive at.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
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Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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