Thesaurus results for HIJACKED

hijacked

verb

variants also highjacked

past tense of hijack

as in commandeered

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 hijacked Perhaps the biggest was that an HBO Max Reddit account was hijacked and began directing users to an app that was actually infostealer malware in disguise. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026 That debate accelerated in early September after Reuters reported that OpenAI’s agents hijacked a dormant German wiki site this spring. — Harshita Mary Varghese, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026 On that beautiful Tuesday morning, Islamic terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes. — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2026 Morgan was a young airbus pilot for United when terrorists hijacked four planes and used them to attack the United States. — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2026 The morning of September 11, two airplanes hijacked by Islamic extremist terrorists struck the World Trade Center in New York City. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026 Another happened in 2022 when attackers hijacked IP addresses belonging to Amazon. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026 That is up from Politico’s report that Somali pirates had seized at least three tankers carrying oil and fertilizer since April, while a chemical-carrying ship was hijacked off Yemen in July. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 Neither candidate is captive to the extremes that have hijacked so much of our national discourse. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026

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Curious Londoners stopped to figure out why a marching band, a blue bird and a few hundred Americans had suddenly commandeered a stretch of Oxford Street.

— Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Inside the farmhouse, the kitchen speaker has been entirely commandeered by cast members Earl Cave and Conrad Khan.

— Riann Phillip, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026

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The conflict began on Wednesday when Tigrayan forces and their allies seized three local airports and launched attacks against federal troops in Afar and Amhara.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
Democrats have seized on the issue as another way to tie Republican candidates to Trump’s policies, something that analysts said may have varying degrees of success in different swing states.

— Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

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