How to Use weaponize in a Sentence

weaponize

verb

• That's just a taste of how this app could be weaponized.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• And will there be any big gaffes that one side can weaponize against the other?
  — Heather Hendershot / Made By History, TIME, 27 June 2024
• Swift isn’t the only celeb to weaponize SEO in their favor.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• Hip-hop lyrics have, for years, been weaponized in U.S. courtrooms.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
• Trent has shown off-the-dribble pizzazz but doesn’t get to the rim nearly enough to weaponize.
  — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
• And the Lakers, of course, have LeBron James, whom the team is starting to weaponize as a center.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• But the spam is more than just an annoyance; it can also be weaponized.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• How might this be weaponized for some bizarre narrative?
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 July 2023
• His job was to harness their powers to fight disease rather than weaponize it.
  — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• Young Thug is one of the latest examples of an artist having his lyrics weaponized against him in the courtroom.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2024
• On Succession, drinking and dining tend to be weaponized in the service of satire.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
• Trump wanted to weaponize the vice presidency to try to stay in power.
  — CBS News, 12 June 2022
• Rather than just being used for spying, this was the decade the digital world was weaponized to break through to the physical.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2019
• Duncan was far more fortunate than most young men who have their lyrics weaponized against them in court.
  — Erik Nielson, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2020
• Like Dakhil, Sarandon’s words were quickly twisted and weaponized against her.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• The bot’s owners have always weaponized our worst and best impulses.
  — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
• Arondir and his friends attempt a prison break, which at first seems to go well when the elves weaponize the orcs' vulnerability against the sun.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• Arizona beat the Phillies by weaponizing its speed and aggression.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• My Dark Vanessa is a minefield in which language itself has been weaponized.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2020
• Comparing the two is, arguably, an attempt to weaponize the rhetoric of social justice.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• But guns weaponize mental illness and escalate the tragedy.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
• If the Fjerdans weaponize this drug, the consequences would be unimaginable.
  — Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2023
• But, at the end of the day, the recall just seems like sour grapes from a union weaponizing the recall process in a retaliatory manner.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2024
• Troops, tanks, curfews—all have been weaponized against Chilean protestors.
  — Wired, 14 Nov. 2019
• Stay humble about the mystery instead of weaponizing the power of your brilliance.
  — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
• Almost overnight, the world is forced to deal with the fact that the same young women who frequently are harassed and abused by men are now weaponized by nature.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2023
• If it were weaponized, the results could be catastrophic.
  — Ana Santos Rutschman, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2019
• Just three years later, the term DEI has become weaponized and cast as the villain in the economic or social issue of the moment.
  — Joelle Emerson, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
• But that fun interplay is weaponized later, when Rona’s demons come rushing at her in a way no headphones can muffle.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
• Sean Moorhouse, a former British Army officer and explosive ordinance disposal expert, said that only a detonator and explosive charge would have been needed to weaponize the pagers, which already have the other three components.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024