co-opt
Example Sentences
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Out the other, it will seek to co-opt Mr. Trump by spreading some of its Hollywood glamor his way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
For students who are incarcerated, the limitations co-opt their educational opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025
As selectman, he threatens to co-opt it using eminent domain.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2025
"Now we can co-opt this same strategy to advance our efforts to build synthetic multicellular structures -- and eventually tissues and organs -- for regenerative medicine."
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
On stage, male musicians may co-opt female gendered attributes as part of a performance, such as Heavy or Hair Metal band members wearing long hair and make-up.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
