bootlegging

Example Sentences

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Ryan Coogler’s bootlegging, Southern vampire blockbuster is smart, ambitious, original and masterfully executed — a classic best picture contender.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

The two are stunned to discover Helen’s passionate letters in addition to hints about bootlegging and a jewelry heist.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2022

Tribes across Alaska have courts that decide child protection, adoption cases, bootlegging and other cases, but their power over non-members is limited.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver