piracy
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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
“All it has left is bullying, piracy, noise and the ability to act as a spoiler,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Acts of piracy by Tripoli, Jefferson’s main excuse for fighting, were overblown as well.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
During the mid-14th century, Islamic piracy expanded along the Valencian coastline, while increasing militarization created growing demand for protective equipment and weapons.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 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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Two of this class were not entered on the Stationers' Register at all, but were pure piracies.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken
She dramatized her poor mouse of a husband as a devastating Don Juan; and then forgave him, as most of the victims of Don Juan's ruthless piracies forgave him.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
The Algerine piracies did not begin until the sixteenth century.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Vocabulary lists containing piracy
Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 11
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