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pirate

[pahy-ruht] / ˈpaɪ rət /


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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

Publicly the government in Mogadishu has said only that it is aware of the operations against pirate groups and will take measures to address them.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Steve Jobs’s pirate flag celebrated a certain rebellious esprit de corps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

The region had recorded no more than a handful of pirate attacks a year since 2013, and five in 2025.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The course was a colorful jumble of pirate ships, giant butterflies, neon toadstools, and even half a school bus.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

The authorities have not given further details how the five crew members were killed or how the pirates took control of the vessel.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Rudderless ship just waiting for the right pirates to come along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Christopher and Anya’s adventures unspool at a breathless pace as they hop from island to island, dueling with pirates, trespassing among giants and competing in a deadly street race featuring some of Glimouria’s nastier creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

He and other researchers suspect there may be collaboration between the Somali pirates and Yemenis after several vessels were seized near Yemen's coast.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Can you imagine a beast so mean, unstable, and stinky that even pirates had kicked him off their ship?

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

But broadcasters outside the UK can and do show those matches, fuelling pirated streams.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Although the judge said Anthropic could use authors’ works for training, he backed the payout for acquiring and storing pirated books.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Dozens of packages stuffed with shiny football jerseys have piled up in a Mexico City warehouse, each with a sticker reading "seized merchandise" -- pirated products for the 2026 World Cup.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

On board the ship, the speakers are playing an electronic track pirated from an unreleased Frankie Dena album.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

Sony says it repeatedly flagged IP addresses—i.e., digital addresses—to Cox that it claimed were pirating music files.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

In moments, we are free to wander and link up with various crew members for our pirating lessons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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

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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