as in to integrate
to make a part of a body or system the national organization co-opted many formerly independent local groups

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Recent Examples of co-opt Both have complicated legacies and have at various times attempted to be co-opted by far-right groups. Olivia Kemp, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 Before grunge got co-opted by capitalism, the same thing happened to goth in the early ‘80s. Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 20 Aug. 2025 The disgust stems both from that aura of obliviousness and from a retrospective knowledge that the sincerity of late-two-thousands indie music was quickly co-opted into a more commercial version of itself. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025 Minimalism has long been co-opted by marketing departments and lacquered into clichés. Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for co-opt
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  • The plan is to drop the first episode alongside the trial, see how things unfold in court, and, if possible, integrate relevant trial developments into the following episodes.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Lauren said the future was still wide open and that Ask Ralph could eventually become voice-activated, integrate the Collection business or be added to other platforms.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • The Price Tracker updates automatically to incorporate the most recent data.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In April 2024, Bill Nelson, the agency's chief at the time, announced NASA would overhaul the MSR strategy after incorporating new ideas proposed by agency research centers, academia and private industry.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • That support can be measured in time in the community to assimilate back into the pace of life.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a brutal mass detention campaign in the far west region of Xinjiang — targeting, tracking and grading virtually the entire native Uyghur population to forcibly assimilate and subdue them.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Co-opt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/co-opt. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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