commandeer
Example Sentences
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One more thing: Because they haven’t lived through it, many might be surprised how close to the surface are contingencies that would totally commandeer the U.S. economy and politics for the next few years.
The Deltas also commandeered at least 200 ranches in the region, driving out families and transforming their homes into outposts and lookouts.
From Los Angeles Times
But even when Palestinians do that, settlers often come out to block them anyway, and they’ve commandeered areas that never required coordination in the past.
From Los Angeles Times
His dining table and buffet have been commandeered by Lego sets built by him and three of his children, as has his office.
Then the spring from where they drank was commandeered for the settlement’s use, even as the thousands of square miles open to his livestock shrank with every passing year.
From Los Angeles Times
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