piracy
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Piracy was rampant off the coast of Somalia in the 2000s, peaking in 2011 with hundreds of attacks, but was significantly reduced by international naval deployments and new tactics by commercial shipping.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
“We will have a trial on the pirated copies...and the resulting damages,” he advised Anthropic ominously: Piracy on that scale could expose the company to judgments worth untold millions of dollars.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025
One of them chimed in right away with a referral: contact Reba Rocket at Takedown Piracy.
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2024
According to the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Center, global piracy dropped in 2021 but the threat level in the Gulf of Guinea region remains high.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022
Piracy was rife along the coast, and was not indeed finally stamped out until the middle of the 19th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing piracy
Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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