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banditry

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as in piracy

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Recent Examples of banditry Robin quickly and viscerally dispatches his foe, before going up against a larger swath of enemies who are targeting his former partner-in-banditry Little John (played by Bill Skarsgård). — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026 In the northwest, criminal banditry has taken root in areas where state presence is thin. — Yusuf Tuggar, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026 In parts of the country, violent attacks, kidnappings and banditry shadow daily life. — Vanessa Offiong, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025 In Nigeria, for example, states like Borno, Zamfara, and parts of Kaduna and Katsina have experienced ongoing insecurity due to armed insurgent groups and banditry, which can restrict or delay vaccination campaigns. — Dr. Tunji Funsho, Time, 24 Oct. 2025

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For years, stakeholders, including UK soccer channel Sky Sports, England’s Premier League professional soccer league, and the world’s largest European soccer streamer, DAZN, blamed Fire Sticks for a lot of streaming piracy.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026
After that, the Memorandum of Understanding invites Iran to commit piracy by charging ships to transit the strait.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 June 2026

Definition of piracy

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Federal officials said the convictions are part of a broader effort to dismantle criminal networks that exploit migrants for profit while targeting the organizations responsible for human trafficking and alien smuggling inside the United States.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
In hard years, Noe Terrebonne, the great-great-grandson of Acadian exiles, would do a bit of smuggling for Li Shan, the Chinese proprietor of a shrimp-drying platform on Bayou Andre, in the marsh north-west of Cheniere Disparue.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

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Efforts to prevent looting had been made even before the formation of the MFAA.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026
President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act after a generation of lobbying by educators and scientists who wanted to protect sites from commercial artifact looting and haphazard collecting by individuals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of looting

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If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine.

— Rich Lowry, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020
There is no question about the general philosophy that underlay this great act of public pillage and economic rapine.

— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2013

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