How to Use weaponize in a Sentence

weaponize

verb
  • Who is shame weaponized against?
    Abdi Nazemian, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Supply chains can be weaponized.
    Tom Kellermann, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Twinning can be weaponized, though.
    Fawnia Soo Hoo, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
  • And will there be any big gaffes that one side can weaponize against the other?
    Heather Hendershot / Made By History, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • She's already weaponized Bluey against me.
    Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Even links that look official can be weaponized.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • And about our justice system, which has been weaponized.
    Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The idea that isolation can be weaponized?
    Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But Georgia weaponizes her body in certain ways.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 11 June 2026
  • But it was also weaponized and used to exclude others.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But the spam is more than just an annoyance; it can also be weaponized.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
  • His job was to harness their powers to fight disease rather than weaponize it.
    Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Trump’s attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper.
    Zeke Miller, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
  • Susan was able to weaponize her race and privilege.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But the topic here was wolves, and that weaponized everything.
    New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • Similar tools have been weaponized against trans writers and artists.
    Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But somewhere along the way, that same selflessness gets weaponized.
    Kwame Christian Esq, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Food has been weaponized in the last couple of decades in that very specific way, for sure.
    Rachel Sugar, Vox, 26 June 2019
  • Trent has shown off-the-dribble pizzazz but doesn’t get to the rim nearly enough to weaponize.
    oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Duncan was far more fortunate than most young men who have their lyrics weaponized against them in court.
    Erik Nielson, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2020
  • There are no hearts to lose, no streaks weaponized against you, and no ads interrupting your flow.
    Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • Both parties have weaponized the justice system.
    Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
  • This is hardly the first time the Strait of Hormuz has been weaponized.
    ABC News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Lies at scale, weaponized overnight by technology.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • As of late, both agencies have been weaponized against people seeking a better way of life.
    Monique Judge, The Root, 14 June 2018
  • This is not the first time Beijing has weaponized rare earth exports against Japan.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But Click said the separation of church and state has been weaponized against the church.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Kurt's key takeaways This attack shows how quickly trust can be weaponized.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The bot’s owners have always weaponized our worst and best impulses.
    Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • To be sure, both Democrats have fat oppo files filled with past statements that wouldn’t be hard to weaponize.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 26 Feb. 2026

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