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co-opt

verb as in to assimilate in order to take over or appropriate

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"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."

Another session revolved around a documentary video, “Ark of Bones,” by the poet Harmony Holiday, that looks at the way Black culture is being co-opted by pop culture, business and government.

“I definitely feel that the Trump campaign has co-opted it in a way that makes it difficult for all people who love 47 to display it.”

The American Revolutionary War, which we’ve seen co-opted in politics for the last few years, is fought and won in the span of a few seconds.

From Salon

If they’re successful then the major parties will co-opt whatever issue the third party was campaigning on.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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