adopted

Example Sentences

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When the spotlight shifted to #MeToo later in 2017, her first worry was that the work behind her phrase would be coopted.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

With the show now off the table for next year, the Oscars — which has been struggling with declining viewership for years — could recapture some of the awards-season excitement that the Globes has coopted.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2021

Thomas has coopted the masculinist narrative but completely sidelined the feminist objections being raised alongside the arguments in the 1960s and 1970s.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2021

They are now active participants in the most significant and inclusive wave of the often crushed or coopted yet ever breathing "athletic revolution" that first took shape in the 1960s.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2020

Earlier that year I had been coopted onto the National Executive Committee of the ANC, taking the place of Dr. Xuma, who had resigned after his failure to be reelected president-general.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela