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- verb Present participle of
coopt .
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Examples
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* Humans can do some things that evolution does not, such as coopting a pattern from one substrate to an entirely new one in a single step, or simulating design improvements without building prototypes.
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Finally, reformers may seek progress through creative recombination—dividing and conquering their opponents, coopting some by designing reforms in ways that benefit them, while isolating others, who can then be crushed or ignored.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The governors could sabotage reforms by ignoring central directives, coopting federal agents, and pressuring courts to issue antireform rulings.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The reformers overcame this coalition only by coopting the leading banks and appeasing the enterprises with cheap energy and tax writeoffs.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The President has a choice to make: Drop or de-emphasize his desire to win bipartisanship and govern with an eye toward energizing the Democratic base for 2012 or take a page from Bill Clinton's book and triangulate his way to reelection even if it means coopting Republican ideas.
Michael Fauntroy: Takeover Takeaways Michael Fauntroy 2010
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The governors could sabotage reforms by ignoring central directives, coopting federal agents, and pressuring courts to issue antireform rulings.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In today's Pakistan where approximately 300 families own almost all the land in the entire country, the Taliban is coopting and channeling frustration and desperation in the hopes of fomenting their own revolution.
Tim Hanstad: Plotting a Path to a More Peaceful World Tim Hanstad 2011
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The reformers overcame this coalition only by coopting the leading banks and appeasing the enterprises with cheap energy and tax writeoffs.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In today's Pakistan where approximately 300 families own almost all the land in the entire country, the Taliban is coopting and channeling frustration and desperation in the hopes of fomenting their own revolution.
Tim Hanstad: Plotting a Path to a More Peaceful World Tim Hanstad 2011
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The President has a choice to make: Drop or de-emphasize his desire to win bipartisanship and govern with an eye toward energizing the Democratic base for 2012 or take a page from Bill Clinton's book and triangulate his way to reelection even if it means coopting Republican ideas.
Michael Fauntroy: Takeover Takeaways Michael Fauntroy 2010
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