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Recent Examples of skyjack
The only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history still baffles the FBI and amateur sleuths.
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Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
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With its unique capacity for manipulation of weaknesses in human psychology, an AI could also hijack a rival nation’s media, producing a deluge of synthetic disinformation so alarming as to inspire mass opposition against further progress in that country’s AI capacities.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Well, Trump hijacked a corporate party, which hardly seemed like a vehicle for proletarian revolt, and did exactly that.David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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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
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In short order, four U.S.-flagged aircraft were highjacked.Richard M. Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
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His ability to commandeer models into his personal life, spells of inebriation, and his openly gay lifestyle were well known throughout the industry.Mayu Saini, WWD, 3 Nov. 2024
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The plot centers on thousands of impoverished Indian farmers who commandeer a fleet and sail, dirty, uncivilized and desperate, to France, where a small resistance is all that stands in the way from their overrunning the country.Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Skyjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyjack. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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