co-opt
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And the natural drag on complicated change is buying incumbents time to co-opt the AI challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Dudek and his colleagues sometimes attempted to co-opt DOGE’s obsessions in the hope that they could address a genuine problem at the agency.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
"Now we can co-opt this same strategy to advance our efforts to build synthetic multicellular structures -- and eventually tissues and organs -- for regenerative medicine."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
Then there’s gestational diabetes, caused by the fetus’s attempt to co-opt maternal control of blood sugars.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
As a result, the Inka were almost forced to co-opt local rulers instead of displacing them.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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