How to Use co-opt in a Sentence

co-opt

verb

• Party lines get twisted over the years, and messages and brands are co-opted by people.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• It's been co-opted from Black culture and turned into a stand-in for various slurs.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
• Those who spoke up in self-defense were either silenced or co-opted.
  — Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Her work was then co-opted and published as proof of pathology under the name George W. Henry.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• On TikTok, Morris whipped out her guitar and flipped his woe-is-me grievances into a song Sandoval’s band wouldn’t dare try to co-opt.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• The same sort of efforts to co-opt far-right talking points have been happening across Europe, analysts said.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• The swastika was an important Hindu symbol before it was co-opted by the Nazis.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• Meanwhile, the far right in quite a few European countries has co-opted or supplanted the center right that once held sway.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• But since its inception, it has been co-opted and bastardized by those seeking to commodify it to the point that artistry is no longer the focus.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 12 Sep. 2023
• Turner was an access point to music that had been created by Black artists and then co-opted by white artists and white businessmen.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• The front porch originally extended all the way across the house, but Bambi co-opted one half to get extra room for a new library inside.
  — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 23 Aug. 2023
• There are also some social movements that have been co-opted by allies who have steered the movement away from its original goals.
  — Preeti Vani, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• Chumbawamba is no stranger to politicians co-opting its music.
  — Dhruv Tikekar, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• Hot springs are usually free in both spirit and actual cost (unless the spring has been co-opted by a fancy resort).
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
• Empowerment is not the right descriptor for these songs—co-opted as the word has been by girlbosses galore.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2024
• And yet this is another example of a victory for Brooke getting co-opted by a man—your boyfriend at the time, Andre Agassi.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• Based on true stories, an espionage thriller abut how Mossad threatened to out gay Palestinians to co-opt them into its service.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• Amid the battle for what the song is, Anthony was quick to disavow the way his song has been co-opted by conservatives and weaponized politically.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Rather than winning a few battles or co-opting a few leaders, colonizers would have to take North America acre by acre.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• But there are also sacred rituals aplenty, along with bogus ones that the People of Darkness cult have attempted to co-opt.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2023
• Prigozhin spent his last days touring African countries, an apparent effort to prevent Russia’s top brass from co-opting that part of his business.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Francesca Ebel, Rachel Chason and Claire Parker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Such a mandate may placate media companies that fear their creations will be co-opted by AI engines.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• While Pepe the Frog is widely used innocently these days, the cartoon frog was also co-opted by white supremacists years ago.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 2 Feb. 2024
• People co-opted the concept to talk about the Great Reset, saying there was a global conspiracy to use Covid to strip away personal freedoms.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• The team is also researching whether watermarking can be done in a way that will prevent it from being co-opted for malicious use, Li said.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2023
• Shame on them for co-opting and misrepresenting their voices.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• Attempts to exploit or co-opt pop culture trends without a genuine connection to the brand can backfire and damage the brand’s reputation.
  — Angelique Kuiper, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
• Two of them appear to be the logo belonging to the Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher, whose logo has been co-opted by some extremist groups.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
• Yes, it has been co-opted by everything and everybody to the ubiquitous edge of meaninglessness.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 2 May 2023
• Many are finding it a challenge to express their feelings without being co-opted by darker forces in society.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024