privateer

At this year's race all 62 cars, including the many privateer entries, run on a sustainable fuel made from vineyard grape skin waste.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023

His father, Jan Jansen, a Dutch privateer, was captured by one of the Moorish states in 1618.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2019

The San Juan Bautista, a Spanish ship transporting enslaved Africans, was bound for Mexico when it was attacked by the White Lion and another privateer, the Treasurer, and forced to surrender its African prisoners.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2019

A British privateer raids Spanish ships with his queen’s permission in 1585.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2019

As a youth, he claimed, he had served as a privateer, after which he was captured and enslaved by the Turks.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Letters of marque regulate against abuses; privateers are paid only if they honor all the restrictions on their activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

She either became a privateer herself, taking to the Mediterranean Sea to attack Spanish holdings such as Gibraltar, or she licensed privateers to attack Spain in her name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

In theory, pirates plunder and pillage outside the law, while corsairs were privateers regulated by authorities.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 11, 2024

The privateers were sponsored by the state, and set a ransom of 500 Guineas for Capt Lambton who was sailing The Stephenson from Bristol to Newcastle at the time.

From BBC ● May 17, 2023

We passed other boats and ships of small draught, but all avoided challenge for fear of tampering with privateers.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Authorization of privateering would allow the capture of Iranian vessels now being turned back or disabled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

All of this sounds very nice and would no doubt be an improvement from the privateering corporate status quo.

From Slate ● May 9, 2024

The Protestant queen wanted colonies that would act as an ideological counterweight to Spanish Catholicism in the Americas and provide a base of operations for privateering expeditions that would raid Spanish shipping.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

While the practice known as privateering is archaic, the idea has come up in recent decades.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022

In 1619, the first Africans arrived in the Virginia colony on a privateering ship.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone