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hijacks

verb

variants also highjacks

present tense third-person singular of hijack

as in commandeers

to take control of (a vehicle) by force some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun

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Recent Examples of hijacks Palace’s offer for the 22-year-old, a loan with a conditional obligation to buy for a fee in the region of €30million (£25m), hijacks Premier League rivals Aston Villa’s attempts to sign the centre-back. — Aston Villa, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 After the high-speed chase erupts into gunfire and a brutal fistfight, Kim hijacks the vehicle, takes the official hostage and speeds off a bridge into the water below. — Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Kara changes her tune when Krem hijacks Kara’s ship and shoots Krypto with a poison dart. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 4 July 2026 Tired of living in Cinderella’s shadow, Lilith steals the Fairy Godmother’s (Bette Midler) magic wand and hijacks the Royal Ball with her sister, Margot (Stephanie Hsu). — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 23 June 2026 In the final cut, Mabel accidentally stumbles upon research being done by her biology professor (Kathy Najimy), discovers the technology, and hijacks a robot beaver. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026 By feeding a stodgy institutional figure like Powell into the AI-meme deluge, the internet hijacks the Federal Reserve’s image and accelerates it past the point of professional control. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026 All that progress rolls backward if males can take spots on both men’s and women’s teams; this torpedoes Title IX and hijacks women’s sports. — Alanna Smith, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026 Robinson and his team at Stanford Medicine uncovered a particularly sneaky mechanism that EBV possesses, which essentially hijacks the body's defences to switch sides and mount an attack on the immune system. — New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2025

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After he’s randomly slapped by multiple women, Barney commandeers Ted and Marshall’s March Madness bracket to figure out which of his past conquests is sabotaging his love life.

— Erin Strecker, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Aug. 2026
There is a seasonal meadow of two dozen native wildflowers, and a year-round spectacle of sandaster (Corethrogyne filaginifolia) commandeers much of the front yard.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

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