as in to hijack
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Mom Denise Antoon reflects on Butler and Marino, the latter of whom several participants accuse of having tried to hijack the Lifetime series, in an emotional segment in the documentary.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
23 July 2025 -
There’s no pretending otherwise: disgraced and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein has hijacked Washington.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
22 July 2025
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Wolf Blitzer appears with a CNN breaking news update of sheer panic in the trailer (below): The country has been hit with widespread technology outages, computers have been highjacked and there are significant casualties.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 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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Belize is best known for its Maldives-level fringing reefs near spots such as Placencia in the south, but consider instead a trip to the capital, Belize City, where Carnival celebrations commandeer the streets in September.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
30 June 2025
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President Trump commandeered 2,000 members of California’s National Guard and placed them under federal control, bypassing the opposition of state leaders, and then sent another 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the greater Los Angeles area.—
Bora Erden,
New York Times,
13 June 2025
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“Carjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carjack. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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