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hijack

verb as in seize control

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Cheney vividly recalled being hauled by Secret Service agents from his office to an underground command post, amid worries that one of the hijacked airliners was headed toward the White House.

“The law had some very noble intentions but it has been … and I’m just going to say what I think, hijacked by the plaintiff’s bar,” he said.

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Several small children raised an index finger - a gesture traditionally associated with Muslim prayer but hijacked by IS.

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Their study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that RNA, typically known for transmitting genetic messages, can be hijacked to build liquid-like "droplet hubs" inside the cell nucleus.

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An election campaign earlier this year was in many ways hijacked by the question of how each prospective prime minister would deal with the president.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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