privateer

Example Sentences

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Hollis compares the current messy cyber moment to the early 19th century when U.S. and European navies were so small they often relied on privateers — we know them now as pirates— for high-seas dirty work.

From Seattle Times

But the privateers’ real ambitions always have been clear - and never more so than this year.

From Washington Times

Sever supervised construction of Congress and was deployed with the ship to the Caribbean to protect U.S. merchant ships from French privateers.

From Washington Times

Much like the Juncker plan before it, the green deal proposes to encourage private investment by shifting risk from privateers to the EU budget.

From The Guardian

As in the days of pirates and privateers, much of our nation's critical infrastucture is controlled by private companies and enemy nations and their proxies are targeting them aggressively.

From Salon