Today’s “Word of the Day” is “air piracy“ and it is a noun meaning “the hijacking of an airplane/aircraft; aircraft hijacking, skyjacking, airplane hijacking, aircraft piracy”.
Example Sentence: Belarusian police arrested opposition blogger Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, after forcing their Ryanair flight (flying from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania) to land in the Belarusian capital Minsk, sparking outrage from European leaders, who have called the plane’s grounding a hijacking and act of “air piracy”.
This work is present in The Guardian article Belarus KGB believed to be on plane forced to land in Minsk, says Ryanair CEO and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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