as in to integrate
to make a part of a body or system
the national organization co-opted many formerly independent local groups
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Recent Examples of co-opt
Under long-standing federalist principles, the federal government can’t co-opt state law enforcement, but Trump doesn’t care about this.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
From the Jim Crow era to the present day, Christianity has been co-opted to serve white supremacy, alienating many Black leaders and communities.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
Saeed said the team wanted to work with the estate to honor Malcolm without appearing to crassly co-opt his image.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The Nazis co-opted these ideas to justify genocide.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
From the Jim Crow era to the present day, Christianity has been co-opted to serve white supremacy, alienating many Black leaders and communities.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
Saeed said the team wanted to work with the estate to honor Malcolm without appearing to crassly co-opt his image.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The Nazis co-opted these ideas to justify genocide.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
See all Example Sentences for co-opt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for co-opt
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Also at the University of Chicago, NORC is part of a consortium that last year received a $53 million, 10-year grant to better integrate the use of evidence and data into USAID programs.—
Dan Petrella,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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The decade is lushly integrated into the storyline, a soft focus and sepia tones bring an air of nostalgia to the fore as the sets and cast recreate the trappings of a gritty Madrid, 1979.—
Holly Jones,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Heavy whipping cream is best to incorporate and emulsify easily into this rich sauce.—
Jasmine Smith,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2025
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Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez will present a unique course that incorporates the stadium section, creating a novel 14-turn route.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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That history would allow Moore to assimilate into the Cowboys’ culture seamlessly.—
Mike Sando,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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In fourteen books of short stories, more than fifty of which were published in The New Yorker, Alice created a new form for expressing the way that the past, incompletely assimilated, creates the conditions of life in the present.—
Rachel Aviv,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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