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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pirated
  1. seized
  2. confiscated
  3. stole
  4. converted
  5. appropriated
Verb
  • President Min Aung Hlaing, the former army chief who had originally seized power in 2021 from Suu Kyi’s civilian government, has been trying to win political legitimacy since the takeover and resume relations with ASEAN.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Attacks could draw retaliation and reignite Yemen’s war Yemen’s civil war began in 2014 when the rebels seized the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen, forcing the government into exile.
    — Fatma Khaled, Chicago Tribune, 8 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
Definition of confiscated
Verb
  • In February, a 17-year-old stole a gun from police and opened fire at a public high school in southern Thailand, briefly taking people hostage in a two-hour attack that killed one person and wounded two others.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The teen stabbed a police officer with a knife and stole his weapon -- a 9mm pistol -- just before the incident, then used it to carry out the attack.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of stole
Verb
  • Kat Rader converted a penalty kick to pull the Dash into a draw with the Courage.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • But Sabalenka converted a spinny kick second-serve ace, keeping her faint hopes alive.
    — Lukas Weese, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of converted
Verb
  • Its funding comes from money appropriated by Congress, as well as donations from corporations and individuals.
    — Sarah Webber, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026
  • District officials warned against budgeting money that had not yet been appropriated, while educators, their unions and other supporters argued that failing to do so would certainly trigger deeper cuts to classrooms already stretched thin.
    — Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of appropriated

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