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Noun
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Neighbors talked about daily robberies, rapes, and assaults.—
Richard J. Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Feb. 2025 -
The report also showed that major felony crime fell by 2% overall, with robberies, burglaries and grand larceny down, but murders and felony assaults up.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2025
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So far, two films have been pulled from digital, at-home screenings for the festival after issues of piracy and copyright infringement— people were circulating clips and key plot points for both films; neither has a distributor at the moment.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
1 Feb. 2025
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Today is the first time legislators have really dared to touched the issue of digital piracy since then.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2025
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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“Privateering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateering. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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