Example Sentences
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A data breach at travel giant Booking.com is leading to a fresh wave of scams recently dubbed "reservation hijacks".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
A study published January in the journal mBio found that the Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2, which is a key protein in brain development.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
Instead they have strands of RNA floating around in the cell waiting to be activated, when the virus infects an organism and hijacks its cellular production facilities.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
They subvert their hosts' cellular programming to make copies of themselves, just as a computer virus hijacks an infected computer and causes it to send out more copies of the virus.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James
