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

"A youth movement will be more effective when internal divisions are minimal, there is ideological plurality without antagonism, and there are few established parties that can easily hijack the movement's results."

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

The late author’s message held lessons about life, but we’ll hijack it for one about financial markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

I wasn’t competing for an advancement point; I was here to hijack Elliot’s test.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Previous waves of reservation hijacks have seen hotels hacked in order to get access to the hotel's Booking.com account and send out phishing emails and text messages.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

As with social media, it appears we have created in AI a compelling technology that hijacks instincts that are essential to our survival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

In April, officials had said there were 17 crew members on board when the vessel was hijacked.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Magpies were always wary of being hijacked, having previously lost Victor Munoz to Liverpool and, while they agreed a deal with Freiburg, they never got a yes from Manzambi.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

OpenAI agents also hijacked an obscure German website and several others earlier this year, Von Arx said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

One of the jets hijacked on 9/11 hit the Pentagon in Washington, killing 184 people who were remembered by a single bell tolling as their names were read out.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I got hijacked by a fat kid in a limo,” said Shadow.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

He says he and his friends have been protesting peacefully, but strangers were hijacking their protests.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Cybercriminals are hijacking companies’ internal artificial-intelligence agents to steal sensitive business data, creating new insider threat risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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

"There can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

To some researchers, it feels like a process of neurological hijacking.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel