highjack

Example Sentences

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Protests in Mexico often take strange forms; students at rural teachers’ colleges routinely highjack passenger buses in southern Mexico, kick the passengers off and keep the buses and their drivers at their service for months.

From Washington Times

Moulton referred to Black Lives Matter as a “terrorist organization” that “highjacked the term ‘racism.’”

From Washington Times

He knows what it’s like to be part of a league that not only blackballed Colin Kaepernick but also highjacked the former 49ers quarterback’s message of social justice without acknowledging his involvement.

From Los Angeles Times

"We have been highjacked by money, out of town writers and musicians bring their stuff in and execs and labels are all about a dollar," one user commented.

From Fox News

So it goes, in a long process that many writers of color know all too well, where the best of our stories are frequently sanitized, devalued, tropicalized, manipulated, shrunk down, highjacked.

From Los Angeles Times