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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Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle the portion of the case connected to the pirated works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
On Friday, Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance accusing it of supplying Seedance with a "pirated library" of the studio's copyrighted characters, including those from Marvel and Star Wars.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
On board the ship, the speakers are playing an electronic track pirated from an unreleased Frankie Dena album.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
