How to Use co-opt in a Sentence

co-opt

verb

• Party lines get twisted over the years, and messages and brands are co-opted by people.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• It's been co-opted from Black culture and turned into a stand-in for various slurs.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
• The mass media has been mostly co-opted by the ruling BJP to advance its agenda.
  — Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
• Those who spoke up in self-defense were either silenced or co-opted.
  — Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Her work was then co-opted and published as proof of pathology under the name George W. Henry.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Her campaign in 2019 was a transparent and ill-fated attempt to co-opt the Bernie Sanders wing of the party rather than offer something new.
  — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
• His purpose has been co-opted by other, more bloodthirsty men.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• On TikTok, Morris whipped out her guitar and flipped his woe-is-me grievances into a song Sandoval’s band wouldn’t dare try to co-opt.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• These people are co-opting a movement that was created by and for fat people.
  — Stephanie Yeboah, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
• Within a day, the Trump campaign had moved to co-opt the term as its own – and apply it to his immigration proposals in ads and stump speeches.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
• The same sort of efforts to co-opt far-right talking points have been happening across Europe, analysts said.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• The swastika was an important Hindu symbol before it was co-opted by the Nazis.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• Meanwhile, the far right in quite a few European countries has co-opted or supplanted the center right that once held sway.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• But since its inception, it has been co-opted and bastardized by those seeking to commodify it to the point that artistry is no longer the focus.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 12 Sep. 2023
• Today’s China seeks not to marginalize competing groups and belief systems, the way Beijing did during the Mao era, but to co-opt them.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• There is also the history of Black culture and music being co-opted.
  — A.d. Carson, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2024
• If anyone knows how to contact Ralph Nader, please tell him Big Energy has gone too far in co-opting the language of the oppressed … or something like that.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• Turner was an access point to music that had been created by Black artists and then co-opted by white artists and white businessmen.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• The front porch originally extended all the way across the house, but Bambi co-opted one half to get extra room for a new library inside.
  — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 23 Aug. 2023
• There are also some social movements that have been co-opted by allies who have steered the movement away from its original goals.
  — Preeti Vani, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• The list of pop songs and rebellious music stars that Donald Trump’s campaigns have tried to co-opt is almost comically long.
  — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• Chumbawamba is no stranger to politicians co-opting its music.
  — Dhruv Tikekar, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• Hot springs are usually free in both spirit and actual cost (unless the spring has been co-opted by a fancy resort).
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
• That didn’t hate groups from co-opting the song in the months that followed its release, however, according to similar reports from around that time.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 July 2024
• Empowerment is not the right descriptor for these songs—co-opted as the word has been by girlbosses galore.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2024
• And yet this is another example of a victory for Brooke getting co-opted by a man—your boyfriend at the time, Andre Agassi.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• Based on true stories, an espionage thriller abut how Mossad threatened to out gay Palestinians to co-opt them into its service.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• For those with experience with Tyson, these serious claims seem to be getting co-opted.
  — Steven Asarch, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2024
• Schoolchildren and students have also been co-opted into the war effort.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
• At the same time, mainstream culture appears to be trying to co-opt elements of graffiti culture while severing any of the cultural context that comes from the work or the people.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024