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noun

Definition of carjacking

as in kidnapping

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carjacking

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verb

present participle of carjack

as in hijacking

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The men had been killed in a carjacking gone wrong, the authorities said. — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Authorities say after the carjacking, the woman driving Garrett’s car called 911 and gave a description of the attacker as an armed man wearing a red bandana. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026 Jeremiah Ross, 21, and Davontate Ashley, 20, allegedly used a handgun to steal property from a marketplace transaction and attempted a carjacking of a second victim, police said. — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026 The circumstances surrounding Stenson’s death would prove to be more complicated than an apparent carjacking. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for carjacking

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Noun

Haiti’s government described the incident as a kidnapping and said the search for the technicians was its top priority.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Investigators say that surveillance video of the kidnapping shows a man wearing black gloves getting out of the same vehicle.

— Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of kidnapping

Verb

Even the risk of hijacking raw computing power on chips is not new.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
These viruses, known as retroviruses, insert a DNA copy of their RNA sequence into the host cell’s genome, hijacking the cell’s resources to reproduce themselves.

— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of hijacking

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The International Criminal Court in 2023 issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Other theories about Madeleine’s disappearance include a botched robbery that resulted in her murder or an abduction by human traffickers.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026

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