Example Sentences

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The 26-year-old also said his mother had "hijacked" his first dance with Peltz, which had been "planned weeks in advance to a romantic love song".

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

But by the time Schmidt was back on his feet, colleagues had hijacked his bill aimed at improving the registry.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022

The contractor employed an engineer whose laptop the hackers had hijacked, he added.

From Reuters • Mar. 23, 2022

Couch, the prosecutor, was personally tied to Slahi's case because he was a close friend of the pilot on the plane that al-Shehhi had hijacked.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2021

One of his lawyers, Jeffrey Essner, said the have-and-have-not argument had hijacked, at least in public perception, what he described as a cut-and-dried case about private property rights.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2014