as in to hijack
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What comes across with painful truthfulness is the way history can hijack hopes.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025 -
This app hijacks your PC’s resources, like the CPU and GPU, which slows down its performance significantly.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Getty Images / Vincent Sandoval / Contributor For the second time in two weeks, printers across the world have been highjacked, rolling out page after page of odd propaganda.—
Chris Stokel-Walker,
WIRED,
13 Dec. 2018
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In short order, four U.S.-flagged aircraft were highjacked.—
Richard M. Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2024
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As their escape car was almost out of gas and one of the tires had been shot out, the robbers commandeered another car, but the driver took the keys with him.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
24 Dec. 2024
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In order to regulate the amount of glucose that makes its way into your muscles, your body releases insulin, which commandeers a bunch of amino acids to help with the job.—
Nick Stockton,
WIRED,
28 Nov. 2024
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“Carjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carjack. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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