- present participle of hijack.
hijacking
Example Sentences
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Seven minutes later, they changed the alert to a code signaling unlawful interference—used to describe attempts to jeopardize the safety of the airplane, like hijacking or hostage taking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
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
