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piggyback

adjective as in astride

verb as in pack

verb as in transport

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While it's not clear what form this collaboration may take, it's a rare example of a global fashion giant acknowledging that it failed to credit local artisans and the craft it was piggybacking on.

From BBC

This week’s apology piggybacks on a statement Gonzalez’s attorney released a day after the video made national headlines and caused public outrage.

Cannabis use might be piggybacking on that natural system to produce a similar effect.

From Salon

The Little complaint lays out the same basic facts of the 2022 Salon article, but adds the charge that Hogshead falsely and damagingly piggybacked on SafeSport’s retaliatory investigation of Little, one of its leading critics.

From Salon

And it's easy to piggyback on this kind of messaging and then manipulate that.

From Salon

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