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pirate
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Synonyms for pirate
Synonyms: Noun
buccaneer, corsair, freebooter, rover
Synonyms: Verb
appropriate, arrogate, commandeer, convert, expropriate, preempt, press, seize, take over, usurp
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Examples of pirate in a Sentence
Noun
the famous pirate Jean Lafitte A software pirate made bootleg copies of the computer program.Verb
He was accused of pirating their invention. using pirated software that was subject to copyright
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Here’s me as a pirate: The new devices also feature an update to Samsung’s DeX productivity software, where plugging a Galaxy or Note phone into a computer monitor turns the device into a sort of desktop computer. — Mike Murphy, Quartz, "Samsung unveils the gigantic Note 10 and Note 10+," 7 Aug. 2019 Two golden ship wheels dangled from her ears, a tribute to pirates — the motif present throughout ATEEZ’s videos. — Time, "‘I Waited Eight Years.’ Meet the K-Pop Superfans Who Spent Their Savings to Meet Their Favorite Idols," 24 July 2019 The second wheelchair-inclusive costume allows a child to dress up as a pirate, with his or her very own ship! — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, "Target Introduces Adaptive Halloween Costumes for Kids with Special Needs — See the Cute Options," 18 July 2019 There was a pirate swashbuckling through the crowd. — Denise Coffey, courant.com, "Theme Park Fun At First Friday," 15 July 2019 More than 90 percent foundered in storms; only about 2 percent were sunk by pirates or rival navies. — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian, "Why Spain Is Seeking to Catalog All of Its Historic Shipwrecks," 23 Aug. 2019 Get your back to school frustrations out on evil robots, zombies, pirates and more! — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, "12 things to do with the kids this weekend: Aug. 22 - 25," 21 Aug. 2019 New Orleans East enigma Library shelves sag with stories that New Orleans likes to tell about itself: pirates and courtesans, voodoo rituals and parlor parties. — Lynell George, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Sarah M. Broom shows her New Orleans in ‘The Yellow House’," 9 Aug. 2019 The actual pirate and princess costumes are sold separately. — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, "Target introduces adaptive Halloween costumes for kids with disabilities," 18 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
In an ironic twist, though, the makers of that firmware have introduced anti-piracy code to prevent people from pirating their own work. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "Switch pirates don’t want you to pirate their piracy-enabling firmware," 28 June 2018 These include opening up more Chinese sectors to foreign investment, punishing companies that pirate foreign technology and lowering import tariffs on high-tech goods. — Doug Cameron, WSJ, "How the U.S. Can Protect Corporate America’s Tech Secrets From China," 10 Jan. 2019 Online, more than 800,000 people paid to watch it for $10 a stream — a respectable number, even with the million or so people who pirated the fight on Twitch. — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, "Logan Paul’s redemption arc is proceeding exactly as planned," 29 Aug. 2018 This year, Sony, which owns World Cup broadcast rights in India, has already issued a warning to potential streaming sites that may try and pirate 2018 matches. — Kurt Wagner, Recode, "World Cup’s soccer highlights will put social media’s copyright tools to the test," 15 June 2018 FlightSimLab owner Lefteris Kalamaras actually confirmed that this was the case in a forum post, but asserted that this functionality was only turned against users running software that the company has deemed to be pirated. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "Flight Simulator Software Packed in Password-Stealing Malware to Battle Piracy," 20 Feb. 2018 SurfSafe will also help users to identify whether an image was pirated from another site and flag visuals that have been photoshopped. — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, "A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’," 29 June 2018 The lawsuit against Dragon Media says the box and the software provided by Dragon Media greatly simplify the process of viewing pirated video. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "“Free TV” box lawyer says video industry is “digging its own grave”," 17 Jan. 2018 The photos are childhood snapshots of Ms. Perry and her twin brother, Sandy, who was one of the N.C.A.A. basketball players whose likenesses were pirated, just a few years ago, by the video game company E.A. Sports. — Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago And Will Heinrich, New York Times, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," 24 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pirate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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