carjack

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Recent Examples of carjack Decoto then ran from the vehicle and unsuccessfully tried to carjack a passerby before he was finally arrested after a brief struggle. Harry Harris, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025 The teens allegedly attempted to carjack him and a woman, whom police identified as his significant other, according to authorities. Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carjack
Verb
  • Our amygdala is overactive, our nervous systems are fried and our dopamine cycles are hijacked by short-term stimuli.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The film, produced by Star Platinum, dramatizes a 1970 incident in which a communist group hijacked a passenger plane and diverted it to Pyongyang.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history still baffles the FBI and amateur sleuths.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • Some hosts might not like someone else commandeering the centerpiece of the meal.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Under the cover of night, a flotilla of boats, some of them commandeered from local fishermen, tried to cross the Dnipro and land on the embankment near the plant, according to three Ukrainian military officers involved in the planning and execution of the assault.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Carjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carjack. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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