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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skyjack
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In April 2024, Russian hackers hijacked the Walt Disney BabyTV channel, which was broadcast across Europe via geostationary satellites of the French satcom provider Eutelsat.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Those three countries, once derided as the ‘big three’ after trying to hijack the sport a decade ago, take in 87 per cent of bilateral international cricket revenues.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Wolf Blitzer appears with a CNN breaking news update of sheer panic in the trailer (below): The country has been hit with widespread technology outages, computers have been highjacked and there are significant casualties.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2025
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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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The restaurant doesn’t so much enter the seafood conversation as elegantly commandeer it.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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One day later, on March 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom banned gatherings of more than 250 people and began readying state and local governments to commandeer hotels for treatment, building on his March 4 state of emergency.—
Andrew Keatts,
Axios,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Skyjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skyjack. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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