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
Welch responds to the then-new phenomenon of online music piracy with practical concerns.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Three of its jobs were for “content security” to assess AI tools and guard against piracy, watermarking and rights-protection work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
There have also been several unsuccessful attacks in a region where piracy appears to be making a comeback.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Despite the lure of piracy, he decided that dinner would be a good idea.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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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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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
Surrounded by the chief citizens and dignitaries of the law sat the governor at a table, on which lay the papers relating to the piracies of Kyd.
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
An immense quantity of literary piracies issues from another firm, whose warehouse rejoices in the appellation of "Bible House."
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
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Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 11
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