pirate
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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
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
The 1,200-square-foot Ship Wreck House has three decks and pirate details, such as a water cannon and secret passageway leading to a treasure-themed chamber with a skeleton and a chest of doubloons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Luckily, Strøm was no pirate; in fact, he would have been deeply offended at the idea.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Rudderless ship just waiting for the right pirates to come along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
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
European nations had a habit of hiring the pirates to attack other countries’ boats.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
“Still, he took the time to send them. And while imprisoned by pirates, too! That’s awfully romantic, don’t you think? Do you like him, too?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
Anthropic recently agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright-infringement lawsuit over its use of pirated books to train its models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
On one balcony, a recording of Nina Simone’s soulful 1965 rendition of the spiritual “Sinnerman” is set over pirated archival footage of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War protests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
On board the ship, the speakers are playing an electronic track pirated from an unreleased Frankie Dena album.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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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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