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highjack

NOUN
  1. seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
VERB
  1. take arbitrarily or by force
    The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami

How To Use highjack In A Sentence

  • Air Marshalls should be carrying something that will take out a highjacker and not penetrate the hull. Think Progress » Dole Stumped When Asked To Name Anyone Who Believes ‘The Terrorists Can Be Appeased’
  • In the end, we may see a report come out that claims John Kerry tried to highjack a fifth plane. 9/11
  • Still, Odierno says he hopes the committee's work doesn't "highjack" the election and that Iraq can remain focused on other critical issues, like jobs and security. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Now imagine there is an attempted highjacking and the pilot and copilot are killed, as well as the highjacker. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • From talking about security to poetry ... talk about a highjack of a thread. Talk is Cheap
  • We certainly do not want a highjack to ha en on the plane today.
  • He is now threatening to "highjack" President Obama\'s honeymoon with the print and electronic media. Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Bloviating Gas Bag
  • Documents recently declassified and made public show that the administration was warned by the Defense Intelligence Agency in February 2002, that the tale about a trip to Prague by the leader of the 9/11 highjacker, Mohamed Atta, had come from an unreliable drunk, and that the story about Iraq training members of al Qaeda on the use of chemical and biological weapons was deliberately fabricated by an Iraqi defector. Bush Gang Swore Saddam Was Behind 9/11 In Lawsuit
  • OUR OUTRAGE over the attempt by the Family Research Council and its radical Christian Right colleagues to highjack the judicial selection process for their politiclal/theocratic agenda Clergy Leadership Network
  • But -- and here's the hard part -- even if we were 100 percent sure that every single person executed was guilty, even if Moussaoui was the so-called 20th highjacker, the death penalty would still be wrong because the only reasons for execution would be revenge and the belief that the guilty party was beyond redemption. Flavia Colgan: Moussaoui -- No 72 Virgins for You
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