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pirate

[pahy-ruht] / ˈpaɪ rət /


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After a brief period in her homeland, he was raised in north London and honed his craft on pirate radio.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

The company has spent roughly $250 million to build a New Mexico production campus for Blackbeard, a missile named after the legendary pirate to reflect its expected sea deployment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

He did not wear his pirate costume with abandon, and there was something rather tragic about the side-whiskers he had fluffed under the scarlet handkerchief on his head.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

He and other researchers suspect there may be collaboration between the Somali pirates and Yemenis after several vessels were seized near Yemen's coast.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

McDonald’s latest Happy Meal collaboration unites the anime pirates of One Piece with Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Although fictional, the game stars real characters such as the infamous English pirate Blackbeard, and other pirates including Mary Read and Anne Bonny.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Is the internet free-for-all going to kill off the very musical endeavour most beloved of its young pirates?

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle the portion of the case connected to the pirated works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors whose pirated books it used to train its AI in the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

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

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

The site, which provides free access to books and scholarly articles, had faced global accusations of pirating copyright material.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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

Born in Lebanon, Myree was living in Paraguay in 2000 when he was charged with pirating CDs, video games and software.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2022

In this moment, the confident Lala seems flustered, almost like a celebrity pirate had just complimented her pirating.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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