- a variation of cooptation.
co-optation
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U.S. officials should also consider more punishing sanctions for Chinese officials higher up in the food chain who oversee foreign espionage operations that violate norms, such as IP theft or the co-optation of cybercriminals.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
“I think it’s the co-optation of religious practices by white supremacists to actually subjugate Black, queer, and trans folk,” Abram said.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023
But the early 1970s were also a time when the utopian promises of the hippie era were fading, pushed back by entrenched interests and corporate co-optation.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023
Hebdige saw co-optation and commercialization as the unfortunate and inevitable fate of all counter-cultural movements in capitalist society.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2020
The election of members was by co-optation on the motion of the president, who, with a flamen, was himself elected for one year.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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