How to Use corsair in a Sentence
corsair
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Rich gives Marge an eye patch that belonged to a corsair his ancestors knew in Cuba.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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If peaceable trading isn't your dream, consider the corsair life, pillaging other ships for their precious cargo.
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Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Acknowledging burdens and consequences In the 1790s, the United States faced a world ruled by corsairs and kings.
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Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
9 Jan. 2026
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Apple has provided some guilty pleasure companion reading for fans of Vince Gilligan‘s new apocalyptic drama Pluribus, full of proud, haughty pirates corsairs and Mandovian spicefruit.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 Nov. 2025
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Set in 1492, the series follows Sara, the defiant daughter of Granada’s chief Rabbi, exiled during Spain’s expulsion of its Jewish population and captured by Ottoman corsairs (‘Korsan’ in Turkish).
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Ben Croll,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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After the Revolutionary War, the United States maintained no standing fleet, but attacks by the Barbary pirates—corsairs based in North Africa who preyed on American merchant ships and took sailors ransom—drove Congress to reestablish a navy in the 1790s.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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