weaponize
verb
weap·on·ize
ˈwe-pə-ˌnīz 
weaponized; weaponizing
: to adapt for use as a weapon of war
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Trump and his allies are openly talking about weaponizing the government to seek revenge against critics in media and politics, with some of his extremist allies even talking about jailing their fellow Americans.
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Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 June 2024
Content by this author: A Deep State of His Own
How Trump plans to weaponize America’s bureaucracy.
—Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
For the past few years, EU authorities have accused authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of weaponizing migration by luring people to his country to find an easier entry point into the bloc than the more dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea.
—Rafal Niedzielski and Czarek Sokolowski, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
In recent years, Putin’s Russia has utilized the Internet to develop a new form of propaganda that weaponizes the chaos of data that envelops us in the digital age.
—Michiko Kakutani, TIME, 6 June 2024
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Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 June 2024
Content by this author: A Deep State of His Own
How Trump plans to weaponize America’s bureaucracy.
—Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
For the past few years, EU authorities have accused authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of weaponizing migration by luring people to his country to find an easier entry point into the bloc than the more dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea.
—Rafal Niedzielski and Czarek Sokolowski, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
In recent years, Putin’s Russia has utilized the Internet to develop a new form of propaganda that weaponizes the chaos of data that envelops us in the digital age.
—Michiko Kakutani, TIME, 6 June 2024
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“Weaponize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weaponize. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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