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skyjacking

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present participle of skyjack

as in hijacking

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hijacking

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One network with the scale to hunt scammers gaming commissions and the plugins quietly hijacking commissions at checkout.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
Even the risk of hijacking raw computing power on chips is not new.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026

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