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pirate

[pahy-ruht] / ˈpaɪ rət /


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She was checking people in on the pier for a separate boat tour to Sazan on a replica galleon that advertises the opportunity to “be a pirate for a day.”

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

"We are still a bit of a pirate ship," a senior Reform figure acknowledges privately.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

This fall, the academy will give him an honorary Oscar and he’s got plenty of Big Ridley on deck, including a pirate movie starring Hugh Jackman and, hopefully, his long-awaited take on the Bee Gees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Radio Caroline, a former pirate radio that now mostly plays rock music, apologised in May after airing messages falsely announcing the monarch's death.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

“How does this boat compare to your pirate ship?”

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Rudderless ship just waiting for the right pirates to come along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Christopher and Anya’s adventures unspool at a breathless pace as they hop from island to island, dueling with pirates, trespassing among giants and competing in a deadly street race featuring some of Glimouria’s nastier creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Just look at Capt. William Kidd, who was hired by the British government to hunt pirates, but was later executed for being one.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

According to the Puntland officials, this could explain why it has now become an area of operation for the pirates.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Patching together an odd assortment of regular soldiers, local militiamen, pirates, black freemen, and enslaved men, he defeated a large and more experienced British army at the Battle of New Orleans with very few losses.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The biggest players in Silicon Valley are building data centers to more efficiently run copyright-infringement machines built on terabytes of pirated material.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

Due to its global popularity, football has been found to be pirated at an "industrial scale", according to analysts.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The cyber teams found that some of the ships are running pirated software for business- management and navigation purposes that is loaded with malware.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

One street vendor, who requested anonymity, lost all her pirated merchandise in a recent police crackdown.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

On board the ship, the speakers are playing an electronic track pirated from an unreleased Frankie Dena album.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

They said Meta accessed millions of books and journal articles from pirating sites, which the company then allegedly used to train its AI platform Llama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday on whether internet service providers should be held liable for the online pirating of copyrighted music by their users.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court on Thursday to more than two years in prison.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Otherwise, providers have generally shied away from acting on such breaches because of the potential for backlash by subscribers, focusing instead on more significant pirating activity.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022

He didn’t consider acquiring free music online to be pirating or theft, though.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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