pirate
noun
a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
pirated
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past participleof pirate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pirate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
piratenouna person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
Example Sentences
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The biggest players in Silicon Valley are building data centers to more efficiently run copyright-infringement machines built on terabytes of pirated material.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
In 2024, a group of authors sued Anthropic, arguing that the company pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books and used them without permission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
But he already was pricing his model to undercut Western models, which he was suspected partly of having pirated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
One street vendor, who requested anonymity, lost all her pirated merchandise in a recent police crackdown.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
Mary Anne searched her purse for a Kleenex, but pulled out instead a teaspoon pirated from her mother’s silver service.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
