as in to hijack
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The latest clash, on March 11, appeared to mark a dramatic new level in its guerrilla and terror operations when a BLA force hijacked a train, resulting in scores of deaths.—
Karl Vick, TIME, 25 Mar. 2025
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Nearly 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, 2001, after terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.—
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Wolf Blitzer appears with a CNN breaking news update of sheer panic in the trailer (below): The country has been hit with widespread technology outages, computers have been highjacked and there are significant casualties.—
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Getty Images / Vincent Sandoval / Contributor For the second time in two weeks, printers across the world have been highjacked, rolling out page after page of odd propaganda.—
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The restaurant doesn’t so much enter the seafood conversation as elegantly commandeer it.—
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One day later, on March 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom banned gatherings of more than 250 people and began readying state and local governments to commandeer hotels for treatment, building on his March 4 state of emergency.—
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“Carjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carjack. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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