How to Use piracy in a Sentence

piracy

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  • This isn’t the first a piracy app that has garnered tons of downloads in the App Store, though.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Townsend explained that West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea is one of the top areas for piracy in the world.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Ships in the region have faced a rise in piracy and other attacks over the last few months.
    — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The rigid silos of the past -- the ones that got us into the piracy mess of yesterday -- will not serve us.
    — Dmitri Vietze, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The string of islands was a hub of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the seabed is strewn with shipwrecks from treasure fleets.
    — Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
  • But rapid growth has also opened the door for rampant piracy and fraud.
    — NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Expect many more people to return to a bad habit from the past: piracy.
    — Fortune Staff, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Many of them noted that piracy in the strait has declined in recent years.
    — Yantoultra Ngui, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • The bar's name comes from the pirate Jean Lafitte, who was rumored to have used the building for smuggling and piracy.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The site found that the specific app pictured in the tweet is a clone of an old movie piracy app called Showbox.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Dec. 2021
  • And the story of that piracy is now being sold as a TV series ... at great profit to the team who made it.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
  • He was known to offer places in his band to captives who preferred piracy to death.
    — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Triller just prevailed on two of its cases against him for piracy.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • A year later, cassette sales had dropped 40.3% while CD sales had dropped just 3%, due to the rise of online piracy.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Under the black flag Overall, around 4,000 sea dogs plagued the world’s sea lanes during the golden age of piracy.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Here are answers to some common questions about porch piracy and tips for how to avoid it.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
  • The lesson of history is that piracy won't just fade away.
    — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • When the Premier League formed three decades ago piracy was of little concern.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • And then there’s outright piracy, a fixture of ’90s life in Russia, now set to make a comeback.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2022
  • Can’t wait to see all the piracy and fragmentation backfire on them for this.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Nasir and Moss expressed dismay that Google failed to stop PapayAds and the piracy sites sooner.
    — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The literary ride could be a bit smoother, but maybe that's just inherent to piracy.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2021
  • No ransoms had been demanded, and no piracy seemed to be afoot.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Crews from more than 20 countries have been threatened or taken hostage in acts of piracy.
    — NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • How is watching a stream with ads, albeit on VLC instead of the Pluto app, piracy?
    — Chris Person, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • For the new film, the plan was to counter piracy by releasing the movie in China the same day as the rest of the world, a strategy that's no longer possible.
    — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Without eagle-eyed fans who had seen the original film abroad or via piracy, the ruse may have worked.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Even with Fairley gone from Potrero, the porch piracy has continued.
    — Lauren Smiley, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2019
  • With a downstream flow strengthened by piracy, the Kosi system began eroding more rock from the valleys below Everest, the researchers wrote.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • VPNs can be used to circumvent government restrictions on the web and have been attacked by Hollywood film studios for their use in piracy and copyright infringement.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Sep. 2024

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