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

For students who are incarcerated, the limitations co-opt their educational opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 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

Then there’s gestational diabetes, caused by the fetus’s attempt to co-opt maternal control of blood sugars.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 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