skyjack

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Recent Examples of skyjack The only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history still baffles the FBI and amateur sleuths. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyjack
Verb
  • What comes across with painful truthfulness is the way history can hijack hopes.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • This app hijacks your PC’s resources, like the CPU and GPU, which slows down its performance significantly.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Wolf Blitzer appears with a CNN breaking news update of sheer panic in the trailer (below): The country has been hit with widespread technology outages, computers have been highjacked and there are significant casualties.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Getty Images / Vincent Sandoval / Contributor For the second time in two weeks, printers across the world have been highjacked, rolling out page after page of odd propaganda.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2018
Verb
  • Much as the first episode after November’s election started out overly earnest before its mid-cold-open rug-pull, this one barely let Miranda cough out one syllable before James Austin Johnson’s Trump commandeered the sketch, dragging it into a hilarious new direction.
    Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2025
  • And there's longstanding Supreme Court precedents that say that the federal government cannot commandeer a state or local government to do the job of the federal government.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025

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“Skyjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyjack. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.

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