How to Use hostile takeover in a Sentence

hostile takeover

noun

• The effect of legalizing death care is not just the hostile takeover of medicine.
  — Alexander Raikin, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
• In truth, the franchise simply doesn’t want another hostile takeover of its own home court.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024
• Though advancement was on the horizon, in 1977, a hostile takeover was brewing.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 19 Aug. 2023
• With a hostile takeover looming above, Matsson is flirting with the same move Kendall tried in Season 1 to acquire Waystar.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023
• That’s why Anxiety, to mount her hostile takeover of Riley’s personality, has to do more than just shuttle Joy and her crew to the Vault in the back of the mind.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 June 2024
• But the truth is, the initiative is a hostile takeover attempt of criminal justice reform.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• Another risk, aside from a hostile takeover, is that the receiving aliens might also get the wrong idea about us from the LLM if it were trained on a broad spectrum of human culture.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 3 May 2024
• Maine’s voters will decide Tuesday whether to take a rare step: a hostile takeover of their biggest electric companies.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2023
• Become a Subscriber A little more than a year later, Musk was promising not an entirely new site, but a hostile takeover of a familiar one.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2023
• Moderna says that some practices at issue, such as staggering terms of its board members, are a defense against a hostile takeover.
  — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• The fruits of that semi-hostile takeover launched yesterday, and the app is available at no additional cost to Apple Music subscribers.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• In 2017, in order to fend off a hostile takeover bid by a Chinese activist investor, the company let the Shenzhen government step in as its top shareholder.
  — Laura He, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• No one wants to imagine their final experience to be a hostile takeover of their life-saving medical device.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2022
• Icahn first rose to fame in the 1980s as one of the original corporate raiders, famously acquiring Trans World Airlines in a hostile takeover and then selling off its routes and other assets.
  — Chris Dolmetsch, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• Saudi Arabia has already launched a hostile takeover of professional golf.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 12 June 2024
• So, bedtime can feel like a hostile takeover—until parents recognize what’s going on, and act accordingly.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 14 June 2023
• There’s no evidence that Electric 360 is any kind of hostile takeover of electric racing or has an ulterior motive, for example to push EVs entirely in the direction of hydrogen.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• The filing is consistent with a potential effort to affect the company’s business lines, including an ask for reviewing strategic options, or even a hostile takeover, though there is no indication that is in the cards just yet.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• The takeover is a playbook that is all too familiar to residents of my city of Jackson – Mississippi’s majority Black capital city – which has been battling the hostile takeover of aspects of its local governance for years.
  — Derrick Johnson, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• In response, the company implemented a shareholder rights plan to discourage the possibility of a hostile takeover.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
• More than a decade earlier, in 1983, corporate raider Saul Steinberg staged an ultimately unsuccessful hostile takeover of Disney.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024