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
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
“All it has left is bullying, piracy, noise and the ability to act as a spoiler,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
‘And that’s a humble homage to liberty. To democracy and tyranny. To freedom and piracy.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Your excellency also spoke of piracies committed in these seas.
From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham
Lynn is in the temperate zone, and we should naturally reason that its piracies would be more calm and equable than those of the tropics, and so they were.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
That is to say, for all piracies committed eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, to the longitude and meridian of Socatora and Cape Camorin.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
Vocabulary lists containing piracy
Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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Born a Crime
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 11
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