How to Use hostile takeover in a Sentence

hostile takeover

noun
  • This was not a hostile takeover.
    — Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
  • How does a hostile takeover work?
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Rather than trying to please the host, the guest planned a hostile takeover.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Paramount's trying to do that now with this hostile takeover bid.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And at one point, the bidding war involved a hostile takeover threat.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The hostile takeover of our police force is not going to happen.
    — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2025
  • But this is not a hostile takeover, as some have characterized it.
    — Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
  • This hostile takeover bid's going to probably take months to play out.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Trump did not mention the hostile takeover bid, however.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The effect of legalizing death care is not just the hostile takeover of medicine.
    — Alexander Raikin, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
  • In truth, the franchise simply doesn’t want another hostile takeover of its own home court.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024
  • Trump and his aides have been telegraphing his plans for a hostile takeover of the budgeting process for months.
    — Molly Redden, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But Paramount launched a hostile takeover attempt with an all-cash offer.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Paypal is reported to be talking with banks to defend against a hostile takeover.
    — Justin Zacks, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Trump did a hostile takeover of the performing arts center, and many celebs canceled their shows in response.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But a target company has a variety of ways to fight back to prevent a hostile takeover bid.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • There are two main ways a company can go about securing a hostile takeover of a target company.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • An engineer at a biotech start-up fights an attraction to the man planning a hostile takeover of her company.
    — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • So Whitney suggests a hostile takeover of the once golden investment firm.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But the truth is, the initiative is a hostile takeover attempt of criminal justice reform.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • But Paramount’s hostile takeover bid means that a giant question mark looms over the entire media empire.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Though advancement was on the horizon, in 1977, a hostile takeover was brewing.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Moderna says that some practices at issue, such as staggering terms of its board members, are a defense against a hostile takeover.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Amid pressure from Paramount’s hostile takeover campaign, Netflix last month changed that to an all-cash offer.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
  • No one wants to imagine their final experience to be a hostile takeover of their life-saving medical device.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2022
  • Paramount continued its attempt at a hostile takeover and eventually won a bidding war.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026
  • During his tenure Thomas also successfully staved off a hostile takeover.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • Saudi Arabia has already launched a hostile takeover of professional golf.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • So Paramount threatened a hostile takeover bid, pledging to take the deal directly to shareholders.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Sounds like something Logan Roy would say to his ineffectual sons in the middle of a hostile takeover.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024

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