hijacking

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Mr. Balint is the author of “Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

And on Wednesday, CPD’s Vehicular Hijacking Task Force conducted its first citywide operation of the year, making five felony arrests, and finding two hijacked vehicles and seven stolen ones, Brown said.

From Fox News • Jan. 13, 2022

"A Prophet" came out a few weeks before "R," so it got buried, but the filmmakers had the reverse experience with "A Hijacking" coming out before "Captain Phillips."

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2020

Hijacking the narrative here for tedious stretches, they’re meant to serve as comic-book counterparts to Scooby and Shaggy, of course, but what they really serve is something altogether more depressing and commonplace.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2020

This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book, “Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.”

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2019