Example Sentences

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The idea wasn’t to subsume or co-opt the radicals, but to delegitimize them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Even when third parties successfully identify a policy that appeals to voters and isn’t on the Donkey/Elephant menu, they often watch helplessly as Democrats or Republicans co-opt their ideas.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 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

In order to function and reproduce, viruses infect living cells and co-opt their genetic material.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2023

As a result, the Inka were almost forced to co-opt local rulers instead of displacing them.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann