hijacks

variants also highjacks
present tense third-person singular of hijack
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. 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
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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, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Hijacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hijacks. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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