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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
coopt .
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Examples
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With the bankers coopted in this way, the government gave the inefficient enterprises and farms just enough relief to keep them from boiling over.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Of course, some nationalist true-believers cannot be coopted with any quantity of economic benefits.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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It is unfortunate that we cannot look to the mainstream media for help in this effort, since they are absolutely coopted by corporate interests and priorities, both by their ownership and their advertisers.
Think Progress » DeMint Lies: ‘I Did Not Want’ Health Care ‘To Be The President’s Waterloo’ 2010
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By this point, local agents of the tax inspectorate, police, security service, and procuracy had been coopted by the governors, who supplemented their wages, found them housing, and in practice had a say in local appointments.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Of course, IIRC, the scientists thought it highly unlikely that a new transport system had evolved, they thought it much more likely that an existing transport system had been coopted for citrate transport.
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Only one and a half years after he had left the finance ministry, after the banks had been coopted, did stabilization occur.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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With the bankers coopted in this way, the government gave the inefficient enterprises and farms just enough relief to keep them from boiling over.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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By this point, local agents of the tax inspectorate, police, security service, and procuracy had been coopted by the governors, who supplemented their wages, found them housing, and in practice had a say in local appointments.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Of course, some nationalist true-believers cannot be coopted with any quantity of economic benefits.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In these past two weeks Norway has been the focus of understandably intense scrutiny, and as is typical, the tragic events have been coopted as a means to talk about issues ranging from immigration reform and religious tolerance to gun control and the rise of the European far right.
Jake Townsend: Branding Peace: Norway's Identity Put to the Test Jake Townsend 2011
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