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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Messi had a shot saved at the beginning of the second half, but Palacios then sparked a move from one side of the pitch to the other as Nashville restored its lead in the 49th minute and seized control of the game.

— Dean Jones, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Authorities have seized Walter’s cellphone and laptop, according to Bloomberg.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

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Hana reported that plainclothes agents confiscated phones and electronic equipment and that Seyedabdollahi was subsequently held in solitary confinement and at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence detention facility in Isfahan.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Some areas remained inaccessible, and there were reports that donated relief supplies had been confiscated.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026

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Nashville then moved two goals clear in the 56th minute when Cristian Espinoza sent a pass across toward the near post and Surridge converted nonchalantly with a beautiful heel flick.

— Dean Jones, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
In 1998, Bidwill and Duffy terminated the popular harness meeting controlled by the Johnston family, a minority owner of Sportsman’s, and converted the Cicero track into a thoroughbred and auto racing venue, Chicago Motor Speedway.

— Neil Milbert, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

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In a world saturated with information, where every image is already endlessly recycled and re-appropriated, attention itself becomes a political act.

— Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Congress appropriated $257 million in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act for Kennedy Center repairs and renovations.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

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