Thesaurus results for PIRATED

pirated

verb

past tense of pirate

as in seized

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right using pirated software that was subject to copyright

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Recent Examples of pirated The judge in that case found that Anthropic’s training on their work was fair use – but that the company had pirated that work in order to do so. — Andrew Flanagan, Variety, 31 July 2026 Any livestream could be pirated. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 25 June 2026 The version of the film that was ultimately pirated across the internet was a high quality file, potentially indicating a breach of systems maintained by those that worked on the movie. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 The reality that her likeness had been basically pirated settled in. — Ella Chakarian, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026 Anthropic, it was revealed, pirated millions of digital books to train its Claude chatbot and scanned and shredded millions of more physical ones. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026 So, the Board of Supervisors, through the County Executive Officer, has pirated the Treasurer’s office and is now plundering it. — John Moorlach, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026 Justin Nelson, an attorney for the authors, told Alsup that about 465,000 books are on the list of works pirated by Anthropic. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025 Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthropic stole. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025

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His critics seized on the decision as an example of financial mismanagement, although the building was used as collateral under former party chairs as well.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
For years, where others have seen voids with Heat rosters, Spoelstra has seen opportunities seized by the likes of Duncan Robinson, Max Strus, Gabe Vincent and others who have contributed to Heat runs to the NBA Finals.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of seized

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Several members hotel rooms were searched and their passports were temporarily confiscated, the post said.

— Reuters, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2026
After helping rescue a small group of ploughshares confiscated from smugglers, Goode and the Turtle Conservancy became the first to successfully breed the species outside of Madagascar.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026

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Jonny DeLuca led off with a single, stole second, went to third on a one-out grounder to first by Ben Williamson and scored on a two-out single by Nick Fortes.

— Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
Back in the ring, Knight nearly stole a pin, but Jey hit another spear.

— Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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According to the company, approximately 60% of the carbon contained in coal can be converted directly into carbon materials rather than being released through combustion.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
Organizers had converted the administrative conference room at North Little Rock High into a green room of sorts.

— Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of converted

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Although Congress appropriated $345 million for AHRQ for this fiscal year, the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants and hasn’t issued a new one in over a year, according to a review of federal records.

— Arthur Allen, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
In general, the president can only spend money that Congress has appropriated.

— Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2026

Definition of appropriated

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