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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
co-opt .
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Examples
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While hard power acts directly -- including by force -- to impose itself and soft power attracts and co-opts, subtle power sets the environment in which hard and soft power can produce optimal effects.
David Gosset: Chinese Prudence vs. US Recklessness David Gosset 2011
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Oh, and they think slurs against transgender people are completely appropriate in a show that co-opts a play/movie about the world's favorite fictional transvestite.
Alex Blaze: Glee Neuters Rocky: "Tranny" Is OK but "Transsexual" Isn't? Alex Blaze 2010
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By the 1960's, the MPPA achieved regulatory capture where an industry co-opts the very people who are regulating it when they hired Jack Valenti, who ran the studios' lobbying efforts for the next 38 years.
Steve Blank: Why the Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result Is SOPA Steve Blank 2012
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Financed in part by Apple because the Man co-opts everything in the end, it's hard to see how Martin Scorsese's frequently funny portrait of the artist, and his place in the tumult of the 1960s, could be bettered; the biggest surprise being how direct and honest the "enigma" is in his interviews, after decades of obfuscation.
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Robert Wise directed, from a screenplay by Nelson Gidding, and Julie Harris stars as a lonely woman who accepts an invitation to participate in the investigation of a mansion reputed to be haunted, and which, little by little, co-opts her sanity.
'Insidious': Scary Eyeful of the Unknown John Anderson 2011
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Her vanity co-opts her into agreeing to run a third-party presidential campaign in 2012.
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Yet history also reveals an alternate Catholic dynamic by which Rome co-opts its more fractious elements, harnessing them until they are safely domesticated.
Opus Dei, in Hollywood and Rome David Gibson 2011
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It co-opts shallow pity for the disabled, vocalizes a repressed public aversion, yanks our secret fears and embarrassments into the open -- where they suddenly become funny.
Robert Koehler: Mohammed at Four O'Clock Robert Koehler 2011
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Her vanity co-opts her into agreeing to run a third-party presidential campaign in 2012.
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Crucially, this also co-opts inertia to your cause: by Thursday, with luck, the project will have become the default that you do semi-automatically anyway.
This column will change your life: Multiple choice Oliver Burkeman 2010
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