commandeer

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One more thing: Because they haven’t lived through it, many might be surprised how close to the surface are contingencies that would totally commandeer the U.S. economy and politics for the next few years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to take them to an annual protest in Mexico City.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

You took a computer at a place where you commandeer visually several screens at once, and you had also the ability to turn the TV you were watching pretty readily.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2024

“They can suspend laws, order evacuations, commandeer private property and impose curfews, among other powers.”

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024

But that is mere child’s play compared to the way personal communications devices can commandeer those systems.

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