co-option
Americannoun
plural
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Example Sentences
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Like the indie sleaze photos, what had once felt like an authentic ethos has become a marketing campaign ripe with co-option.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2024
That’s why trying to present anthropological work “impartially,” letting the data speak for itself, leaves the door open to co-option, said Robin Nelson, a biological anthropologist at Arizona State University.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2024
The Seattle Times spoke with Gordon over Zoom about the capitalist co-option of body positivity, how white supremacy is built into health care, and how hosting “Maintenance Phase” has changed her life.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2023
It’s also difficult to assess as art, given how it collapses lines between collaboration and co-option and between cinema and supportive treatment.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Within their own town they reigned supreme, filling up vacancies in the vroedschap by co-option, exercising all authority, occupying or distributing among their relatives all posts of profit, and acquiring great wealth.
From History of Holland by Edmundson, George
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