co-opt
Example Sentences
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The idea wasn’t to subsume or co-opt the radicals, but to delegitimize them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 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
I had a keen awareness of how the famous songs usually aren’t the best ones and are often the easiest to co-opt.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023
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
