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Recent Examples of privateerOf these, Audi Motorsport reserved 20 for its program, sold 20 to privateer teams, and the remainder were offered on the market at about $80,000 each.—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2024 Hundreds of years later, they were found, proving that the ship and the cargo were indeed legitimate prey for privateers, at least according to the law at the time.—The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 The Africans sold into bondage in Virginia in 1619 (the event that prompted the New York Times’ 1619 Project, four centuries later) had been seized from a Portuguese slave ship by an English privateer carrying a Dutch letter of marque.—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 But in the following century, states turned away from privateers because their extracurricular pillaging became too costly.—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021 See all Example Sentences for privateer
In the finale, the kids are able to contact the New Republic to warn them about the pirates, and permanently drop the barrier around the planet, revealing the existence of At Attin for the first time to the rest of the galaxy.
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Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2025
The port quickly became successful, attracting pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard, who used the island’s geography to launch surprise attacks on passing ships.
Sporting a goatee, tricorn hat, purple vest and pantaloons, the bad-news buccaneer ambushed the victim near the station’s turnstiles, punching him repeatedly before making off with his AirPods and sneakers.
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Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
1 Nov. 2024
However, the swarthy crew has an abundance of muscles and ego, not one of the buccaneers knows how to read.
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