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Noun
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An off-duty Kane County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot an armed South Elgin man during an alleged Elgin robbery this summer was justified in his actions, according to a results of a Kane County Major Crimes Task Force investigation.—
Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025 -
The eleventh man, who wasn’t present during the robbery itself, met them later that night at a safehouse.—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Jan. 2025
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The agency’s research pointed to a number of successes over the last year, including collaboration between the U.S. government and foreign governments to combat piracy and counterfeit efforts from Vietnam, Brazil, Kuwait and the Philippines.—
Lauren Irwin,
The Hill,
9 Jan. 2025
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Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube have all signed deals to distribute licensed live sports and have an obvious stake in seeing piracy not undermine those deals.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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“Privateering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateering. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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