Thesaurus results for HIJACKED

hijacked

verb

variants also highjacked

past tense of hijack

as in commandeered

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 hijacked Critics argue that the law has been hijacked by NIMBY activists without real environmental concerns. — 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 Phone numbers are hijacked through SIM swaps and port-out fraud. — Travis McGregor, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The problem is that the spectacle has hijacked the meaning of the day. — Ollivier Pourriol, Vanity Fair, 19 Oct. 2026 The Omani Flydubai co-pilot who hijacked a passenger plane last week planned to crash the aircraft into Ben Gurion International Airport in central Israel, UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif al Shamsi said on Friday. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026 Season 2’s trailer shows hitwoman Julie reluctantly teaming up with Edward once again, when his dream honeymoon with Kayla (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is hijacked and his new wife taken hostage. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026 Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2026 In April and May, hundreds of users of the social media platform Bluesky discovered that their accounts had been hijacked and used to spread content about Ukraine. — RenÉe Diresta, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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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, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026

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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

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