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There’s also a difference between not allowing something to bother you and sitting back while people hijack your meetings.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

“In order to fully hijack your ability to reason, I need to parasitize both your cognitive or thinking system, as well as your emotional affective system.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

McKinney’s sudden emergence in the race in May saw him hijack the incumbent’s support from law enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

They eventually agreed terms, but too late to prevent arch-rivals Arsenal launching an 11th hour hijack to seal a £60m switch from Crystal Palace.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

“Prim came up with the idea of trying to hijack him back,” Haymitch tells me.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

A data breach at travel giant Booking.com is leading to a fresh wave of scams recently dubbed "reservation hijacks".

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

A study published January in the journal mBio found that the Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2, which is a key protein in brain development.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025

I always assumed the term “brain worm” was slang for a repetitive thought that hijacks one’s mind and won’t leave.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

They subvert their hosts' cellular programming to make copies of themselves, just as a computer virus hijacks an infected computer and causes it to send out more copies of the virus.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

The Magpies were always wary of being hijacked, having previously lost Victor Munoz to Liverpool and, while they agreed a deal with Freiburg, they never got a yes from Manzambi.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

"They had conscience and couldn't observe idly while what they fought for what had been hijacked by Isaias and his coterie," says Ibrahim.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

OpenAI agents also hijacked an obscure German website and several others earlier this year, Von Arx said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

One of the jets hijacked on 9/11 hit the Pentagon in Washington, killing 184 people who were remembered by a single bell tolling as their names were read out.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

I’m pretty sure I’ve been hijacked and am no longer at the brain controls.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Many of the papers are leading on the passengers who helped prevent a possible plane hijacking of a flight bound for Israel.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Some were angry that the much smaller group of anti-immigration protesters were attracting media attention and hijacking their message.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The race to automate an ever wider range of workplace tasks is creating an army of inside would-be hackers, with cybercriminals hijacking companies’ internal artificial-intelligence agents to steal sensitive business data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

“Their hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their AI products — a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026

All of my bravado from hijacking Elliot’s simulation test was draining away, and I was left with a familiar feeling of uncertainty.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin