How to Use weaponize in a Sentence

weaponize

verb
Definition of weaponizenext
  • 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
  • At some point, however, the concept of deterrence has to be weaponized to mean something.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
  • In the film, a scientist (Duhamel) steals an experiment and hides off the grid in Europe to prevent it from becoming weaponized.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The guiding idea, as Houser saw it, would be to weaponize ICE against families in order to inflict maximum pain in the most conspicuous way.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

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