hijack

There’s also a difference between not allowing something to bother you and sitting back while people hijack your meetings.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

McKinney’s sudden emergence in the race in May saw him hijack the incumbent’s support from law enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

According to claims shown in screenshots and videos shared on social media, Instagram's AI chatbot allowed users to "hijack" accounts in recent days.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

But between Sackett and EPA’s careful new wording, it won’t prove as easy to hijack as in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

“Or we could hijack someone else’s event,” Benji said.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

It is a jukebox musical of Celine Dion hits, where Celine herself hijacks a museum tour about the Titanic cruise liner in order to narrate her version of what happened the night the vessel sank.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

A study published January in the journal mBio found that the Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2, which is a key protein in brain development.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025

As I talk, my anxiety hijacks my thoughts, and I immediately regret opening my mouth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

They subvert their hosts' cellular programming to make copies of themselves, just as a computer virus hijacks an infected computer and causes it to send out more copies of the virus.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

I’d rather revert to the days when every lazy thriller relied on a hijacked nuclear bomb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

In late 2023 and early 2024, the Houthis hijacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea and launched attacks on dozens of other vessels, leading container-shipping companies to halt their Red Sea routes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

“I am angry and disappointed to see that the Monday and Thursday games have been hijacked to cable services for what I see as greed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Newly appointed "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton said Pelley "hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt."

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

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

In the letter terminating Pelley's contract on Tuesday, Bilton accused him of hijacking the staff meeting to disparage Bilton, his qualificatons and intentions with "remarkable incivility and contempt".

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

“Their hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their AI products — a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026

AI companies' "hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products -- a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale," said A.G.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Google says it is expanding its policies to crack down on websites which trap users with "back button hijacking".

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

I could never guess whether Suzanne knew unconsciously that something strange was happening in the cells of her body, that a silent hijacking was already under way.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama