co-opt

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

At the same time, mainstream culture appears to be trying to co-opt elements of graffiti culture while severing any of the cultural context that comes from the work or the people.

In separate emails obtained by ProPublica, aid officials identified items in trucks that were banned by the Israelis, including emergency shelter gear, solar lamps, cooking stoves and desalination kits, because they were deemed “dual use,” which means Hamas could co-opt the materials.

As Democrats proclaim victory in what sportswriter David Zirin calls “the football wars,” they miss something sinister about what has made the sport the way it is — long before their efforts to co-opt it.

Then there’s gestational diabetes, caused by the fetus’s attempt to co-opt maternal control of blood sugars.