How to Use weaponize in a Sentence

weaponize

verb

• That's just a taste of how this app could be weaponized.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• And will there be any big gaffes that one side can weaponize against the other?
  — Heather Hendershot / Made By History, TIME, 27 June 2024
• Swift isn’t the only celeb to weaponize SEO in their favor.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• Hip-hop lyrics have, for years, been weaponized in U.S. courtrooms.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
• Trent has shown off-the-dribble pizzazz but doesn’t get to the rim nearly enough to weaponize.
  — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
• Trump’s attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper.
  — Zeke Miller, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
• And the Lakers, of course, have LeBron James, whom the team is starting to weaponize as a center.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Food has been weaponized in the last couple of decades in that very specific way, for sure.
  — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 26 June 2019
• But the spam is more than just an annoyance; it can also be weaponized.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• How might this be weaponized for some bizarre narrative?
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 July 2023
• That is something that the right has figured out and weaponized and the left is grappling with and wading into.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
• His job was to harness their powers to fight disease rather than weaponize it.
  — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• Young Thug is one of the latest examples of an artist having his lyrics weaponized against him in the courtroom.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2024
• But as the number of lake trout decline, there will be fewer carcasses to weaponize against the eggs.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2019
• On Succession, drinking and dining tend to be weaponized in the service of satire.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
• Trump wanted to weaponize the vice presidency to try to stay in power.
  — CBS News, 12 June 2022
• Rather than just being used for spying, this was the decade the digital world was weaponized to break through to the physical.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2019
• Duncan was far more fortunate than most young men who have their lyrics weaponized against them in court.
  — Erik Nielson, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2020
• As a result, the platforms have been weaponized and used to incite violence.
  — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
• Like Dakhil, Sarandon’s words were quickly twisted and weaponized against her.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• The bot’s owners have always weaponized our worst and best impulses.
  — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
• Arondir and his friends attempt a prison break, which at first seems to go well when the elves weaponize the orcs' vulnerability against the sun.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• Arizona beat the Phillies by weaponizing its speed and aggression.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• My Dark Vanessa is a minefield in which language itself has been weaponized.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2020
• Comparing the two is, arguably, an attempt to weaponize the rhetoric of social justice.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Move a scoring guard around the floor, weaponize him in balance off the catch and off the dribble, and keep the defense guessing as to where a possession might go next.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 30 June 2019
• But guns weaponize mental illness and escalate the tragedy.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
• If the Fjerdans weaponize this drug, the consequences would be unimaginable.
  — Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2023
• This ranges from explicit images of students to ads from public figures, underscoring the realism, ease of use and ways deepfake tools could be weaponized against consumers in the future.
  — Rodger Desai, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• Some women are questioning the privacy of their ovulation and fertility data out of fear that it could be weaponized against them under a second Trump administration.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024