Synonyms for pirates
pi·rates

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1. List of paraphrases for "pirates":

   cilician, pirate, hackers, hijackers, piracy, peretz

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1. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions:

   The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

2. Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions:

   1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

3. Abdirizak Mohamed Dirir:

   Pirates hijacked an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel with its 15 crew from near Eyl.

4. Greek Proverb:

   Where there is a sea there are pirates.

5. David Johnson:

   It's clearly quite sophisticated and if pirates have decided to use munitions it's a big move.