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also highjacks
as in commandeers
to take control of (a vehicle) by force
some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun
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Recent Examples of hijacks
After all, if an attacker hijacks the agent’s credentials or manipulates its input data, the agent could take harmful actions faster and more persistently than any human user.
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Michael Decesare, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In their new action-comedy movie The Pickup, Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson play armored truck drivers who are reluctantly pulled into a casino heist when a burglar (Keke Palmer) hijacks their vehicle.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Michael Decesare, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In their new action-comedy movie The Pickup, Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson play armored truck drivers who are reluctantly pulled into a casino heist when a burglar (Keke Palmer) hijacks their vehicle.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hijacks
commandeers
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When the State Department commandeers the West Virginia hotel to house Axis diplomats in the wake of Pearl Harbor, June realizes that nothing will ever be the same again.—
AudioFile Magazine
August 29,
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29 Aug. 2025
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“Hijacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hijacks. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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