hijack

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

They eventually agreed terms, but too late to prevent arch-rivals Arsenal launching an 11th hour hijack to seal a £60m switch from Crystal Palace.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

By layering these techniques, the researchers built the clearest picture yet of how TFE3 oncofusions hijack RNA to build cancer's growth hubs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2025

He scoffed at the idea extremists might hijack any of the demonstrations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025

“Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

It is a jukebox musical of Celine Dion hits, where Celine herself hijacks a museum tour about the Titanic cruise liner in order to narrate her version of what happened the night the vessel sank.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

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 Boyle, James

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

The rerouting of ships around South Africa since 2023, when Houthi rebels hijacked a British-owned vessel near Yemen, has substantially increased the chances of vessels striking the mammals in the region, they say.

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

Alex-Davies Jones, the government’s minister for victims, said the protests had been hijacked by people trying to cause fear and intimidation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

But I am frustrated as a medical doctor that a complex issue like fertility—and the trumped-up threat of small penises and “population collapse”—was hijacked without scientific merit as the main argument against plastic.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026

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

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

This is the second hijacking of a vessel off the coast of Yemen since May, when the MT Eureka was seized near the port of Qana.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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

Some global sea traffic was diverted from the Red Sea route following the November 2023 hijacking by Houthi rebels of a British-owned vehicle carrier, the Galaxy Leader, near Yemen.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Also Thursday, the U.K. convened diplomats from more than 40 countries to discuss how to reopen the strait without military force and keep it secure postwar—comparing its closure to a hijacking of the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Trying to rescue Peeta from the shadowy world the hijacking has stranded him in.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins