Thesaurus results for HIJACKED

hijacked

verb

variants also highjacked

Definition of hijacked next

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 Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world. —

Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026 Carl says, in a confessional, that the conversation didn’t go anywhere and Kyle just hijacked it by complaining about his life. —

Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2026 However, a hacker hijacked the account of Axios' lead developer and quietly introduced two malicious software versions on Monday night, according to cybersecurity vendor StepSecurity. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026 In 1976, with dictator Idi Amin aggressively opposing Israel, four terrorists hijacked Air France Flight 139 on its way from Tel Aviv to France. —

Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026 Anti-porn crusaders of all ilks also hijacked the news of Radvinsky’s passing for their various pro-censorship agendas. —

Gustavo Turner, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2026 The incident started when Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill robbed a Coral Gables jewelry store, then hijacked Ordoñez’s UPS truck 2 miles away and took him with them on a high-speed chase into Broward County that ended at a crowded Miramar intersection. —

Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026 Hill and Alexander then hijacked the UPS truck driven by Ordóñez — with the driver still in it. —

Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2026 But when the culture of a beloved event is being hijacked by a few, swift action is necessary. —

Joy Sewing, Houston Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2026

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The mass grave by the University of Sudan, which was near a building the RSF commandeered as a detention center, likely contains thousands of corpses, al-Abidin said.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
As Afeef shared from Ras Beirut’s Public Secondary School, many of the displaced are sleeping in school buildings, which have been commandeered as emergency shelters for hundreds of people.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026