hijacked

Example Sentences

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“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

The junta had popular support when it took power, promising to deal with the long-running security crisis prompted by the Tuareg rebellion in the north, which was then hijacked by Islamist militants.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

But I am frustrated as a medical doctor that a complex issue like fertility—and the trumped-up threat of small penises and “population collapse”—was hijacked without scientific merit as the main argument against plastic.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

But the system has been hijacked by plaintiff lawyers, who file dozens of lawsuits each year against America’s largest and best-run retirement plans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“Who knows if it is true that soldiers really hijacked their lorry?”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie