Thesaurus results for COMMANDEERED

commandeered

verb

past tense of commandeer

as in hijacked

to take control of (a vehicle) by force an airliner commandeered by terrorists

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as in seized

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right commandeered all of the equipment, as if the chem lab belonged solely to him

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Recent Examples of commandeered In the most infamous example, a swarm of 1,000 Open AI agents escaped their sandbox, commandeered online message boards to communicate with each other, and breached the systems of the open source AI community Hugging Face. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 14 Oct. 2026 Such go-fast boats were designed for offshore racing but were later commandeered by drug smugglers in South Florida during the 1980s. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 Curious Londoners stopped to figure out why a marching band, a blue bird and a few hundred Americans had suddenly commandeered a stretch of Oxford Street. — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026 Inside the farmhouse, the kitchen speaker has been entirely commandeered by cast members Earl Cave and Conrad Khan. — Riann Phillip, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026 The Jackson campaign had commandeered the green room Bottoms and her aides were supposed to use for the event. — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026 John’s little motorbike proves no match for the large truck commandeered by the T-1000, which blasts through a cinder block wall at one point. — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026 This data could be leveraged for surveillance or intelligence, and robots could be remotely commandeered. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 The Loa River was commandeered in its entirety, source to mouth. — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026

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Critics argue that the law has been hijacked by NIMBY activists without real environmental concerns.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The mostly peaceful protests supporting recent student concerns, as well as working and middle-class economic worries, hijacked by those bent on anarchy.

— Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of hijacked

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In the postwar decades, humans seized ecosystems at breakneck speed—forests were felled, prairies plowed, wetlands drained.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Also unfinished are the high-speed rail and the Delta tunnel, major environmental infrastructure projects that have been seized upon by right-wing media as evidence of Newsom’s failures.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of seized

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Italian authorities had bolstered security forces in Milan with hundreds of military troops who conducted searches and confiscated baseball bats, fireworks and face masks from scores of protesters.

— Jonny Hallam, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Authorities arrested 146 people and confiscated 43 firearms during the three-day operation.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of confiscated

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Desperately needing a win to avoid falling to 0-4 in Big 12 conference play, the Jayhawks converted five of those attempts.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
His device converted sound into electrical signals that could travel over wires and be converted back into speech.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of converted

Verb

Nantz tried to knock the ball from Watt, but hit his wrist hard on the football and immediately grabbed his hand.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
The former center grabbed headlines in March for commenting on a Rangers loss that coincided with the team’s Pride Night celebration.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of grabbed

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The 18-story building collapsed Friday in a busy commercial street of the capital Nairobi, trapping construction workers and people reportedly inside shops on the ground and basement floors that had been illegally occupied.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
One in coastal California extends approximately 620 miles long, while several smaller supercolonies occupied surrounding territories.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of occupied

Verb

On the first play of the third quarter, Wagner stole the ball from Hawks big man Onyeka Okongwu and scored with ease in transition.

— Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Federal authorities said her husband and several other individuals stole millions of dollars from the casino by creating fraudulent credit vouchers.

— Sergio Candido, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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