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co-opt
verb as in to assimilate in order to take over or appropriate
Example Sentences
Also on-brand, Trump co-opted the massacre to redirect attention from his bait and switch on immigration.
It also tries to shape narratives about China in foreign media, target Chinese government critics abroad and co-opt influential overseas Chinese figures.
"Now we can co-opt this same strategy to advance our efforts to build synthetic multicellular structures -- and eventually tissues and organs -- for regenerative medicine."
Another session revolved around a documentary video, “Ark of Bones,” by the poet Harmony Holiday, that looks at the way Black culture is being co-opted by pop culture, business and government.
“I definitely feel that the Trump campaign has co-opted it in a way that makes it difficult for all people who love 47 to display it.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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