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Recent Examples of corsair
Acknowledging burdens and consequences In the 1790s, the United States faced a world ruled by corsairs and kings.
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Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
Rich gives Marge an eye patch that belonged to a corsair his ancestors knew in Cuba.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Apple has provided some guilty pleasure companion reading for fans of Vince Gilligan‘s new apocalyptic drama Pluribus, full of proud, haughty pirates corsairs and Mandovian spicefruit.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
If peaceable trading isn't your dream, consider the corsair life, pillaging other ships for their precious cargo.
—Alan Bradley, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Set in 1492, the series follows Sara, the defiant daughter of Granada’s chief Rabbi, exiled during Spain’s expulsion of its Jewish population and captured by Ottoman corsairs (‘Korsan’ in Turkish).
—Ben Croll, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Vex have new units called Kobolds, Fallen have flying corsairs.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
In 1544, Barbarossa, a corsair who had risen to become admiral of the Ottoman navy, raided the island and carried away into slavery almost a thousand inhabitants—practically the island’s entire population.
—Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Freed from a Mediterranean Sea crowded with Ottoman fleets and North African corsairs, the Atlantic upstarts unleashed themselves on the world’s oceans.
—Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
Rich gives Marge an eye patch that belonged to a corsair his ancestors knew in Cuba.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Apple has provided some guilty pleasure companion reading for fans of Vince Gilligan‘s new apocalyptic drama Pluribus, full of proud, haughty pirates corsairs and Mandovian spicefruit.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
If peaceable trading isn't your dream, consider the corsair life, pillaging other ships for their precious cargo.
—Alan Bradley, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Set in 1492, the series follows Sara, the defiant daughter of Granada’s chief Rabbi, exiled during Spain’s expulsion of its Jewish population and captured by Ottoman corsairs (‘Korsan’ in Turkish).
—Ben Croll, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Vex have new units called Kobolds, Fallen have flying corsairs.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
In 1544, Barbarossa, a corsair who had risen to become admiral of the Ottoman navy, raided the island and carried away into slavery almost a thousand inhabitants—practically the island’s entire population.
—Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Freed from a Mediterranean Sea crowded with Ottoman fleets and North African corsairs, the Atlantic upstarts unleashed themselves on the world’s oceans.
—Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corsair
pirate
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From the days of colonists and pirates to the more modern era (of, say, bankers and lawyers servicing offshore corporations), its touristic charms have gone largely unappreciated.—
John Bowe,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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On the island’s western end, Fort Frederik is a spectacular example of an 18th-century Danish masonry fort, originally constructed to protect the natural deep-water port from pirates and rival nations.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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