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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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Netflix has offered to monitor piracy sites for unauthorized distribution or sale of the movie.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 30 July 2026
The author said the hard cash reaffirms that piracy is a crime.

— Chloe Veltman, NPR, 27 July 2026

Definition of piracy

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As a lifelong lover of reptiles, Eric Goode has known about the world of exotic reptile smuggling for decades.

— Rory Doherty, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
Goode charts the exploitation and mistreatment of reptiles that are illegally sold and sometimes endangered through intricate, decades-old smuggling operations that have often, but not always, escaped detection at airports.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of smuggling

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Cabinet members reserve almost a fifth of the government’s vaccine stockpile for themselves, and the public reacts with mass looting and violent civil unrest.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Efforts to prevent looting had been made even before the formation of the MFAA.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 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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