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Examples of air piracy in a Sentence
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Dunn was authorized to carry a firearm via the Transportation Security Administration’s Federal Flight Deck Officer program, meant to defend the flight deck against criminal violence or air piracy.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
The president started his day meeting with leaders of the Baltic states on NATO’s eastern flank as well as separate meetings with leaders of Poland and Romania to discuss the threat posed by Russia and the recent air piracy in Belarus, according to the White House.
—chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2021
The president started his day meeting with leaders of the Baltic states on NATO's eastern flank as well as separate meetings with leaders of Poland and Romania to discuss the threat posed by Russia and the recent air piracy in Belarus, according to the White House.
—Aamer Madhani, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
But the European Union called it air piracy and barred Belarusian carriers from its skies and cut imports of the country’s top commodities, including petroleum products and potash, a common fertilizer ingredient.
—Yuras Karmanau, ajc, 8 Aug. 2021
After nearly four years of prison in France for air piracy, McNair disappeared with his family into French society.
—USA Today, 29 July 2021
The president started his day meeting with leaders of the Baltic states on NATO’s eastern flank as well as separate meetings with leaders of Poland and Romania to discuss any threat posed by Russia and the recent air piracy in Belarus.
—Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2021
The president started his day meeting with leaders of the Baltic states on NATO's eastern flank as well as separate meetings with leaders of Poland and Romania to discuss any threat posed by Russia and the recent air piracy in Belarus.
—Aamer Madhani, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
After the plane diversion, which outraged leaders abroad described as akin to air piracy, the European Union barred Belarusian airlines from its airspace and airports and advised its carriers to skirt Belarus.
—Yuras Karmanau, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1948, in the meaning defined above
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“Air piracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20piracy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Legal Definition
air piracy
noun1
: the hijacking of an aircraft especially in flight
specifically
: the act of seizing control of an aircraft by force, violence, threat, or intimidation with wrongful intent
2
: the felony of hijacking or seizing control of an aircraft
called also aircraft piracy
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