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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

“The hate, the fearmongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that’s trying to hijack our league will not win,” White said, pounding the table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

"A youth movement will be more effective when internal divisions are minimal, there is ideological plurality without antagonism, and there are few established parties that can easily hijack the movement's results."

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

The police searched the truck and wondered why anyone would hijack a truck containing, not pork and beans, but cases of buttons.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Previous waves of reservation hijacks have seen hotels hacked in order to get access to the hotel's Booking.com account and send out phishing emails and text messages.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

As with social media, it appears we have created in AI a compelling technology that hijacks instincts that are essential to our survival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Instead they have strands of RNA floating around in the cell waiting to be activated, when the virus infects an organism and hijacks its cellular production facilities.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

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

So after the Miami Dolphins called Traore late in the fifth round, Obada "kind of hijacked" his announcement.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

In late 2023 and early 2024, the Houthis hijacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea and launched attacks on dozens of other vessels, leading container-shipping companies to halt their Red Sea routes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

And they’ve been trying to have a conversation that isn’t hijacked by the most doctrinaire voices in the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Newly appointed "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton said Pelley "hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt."

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

“The dirtbags who hijacked my Amanda Rose, they’ve repainted the hull and changed her name. But that won’t fly,” he said confidently, “because I’ll recognize her, no matter what.”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

In the letter terminating Pelley's contract on Tuesday, Bilton accused him of hijacking the staff meeting to disparage Bilton, his qualificatons and intentions with "remarkable incivility and contempt".

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Cybercriminals are hijacking companies’ internal artificial-intelligence agents to steal sensitive business data, creating new insider threat risks.

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

Some global sea traffic was diverted from the Red Sea route following the November 2023 hijacking by Houthi rebels of a British-owned vehicle carrier, the Galaxy Leader, near Yemen.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

“My ambitions extend far beyond hijacking a single preserve. I am part of a movement with much broader objectives.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull