co-opted

Black Friday is a term co-opted by retailers to refer to the time of year when their business moves into the black, or turns a profit.

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Use of the swastika goes back over 5,000 years and was found in multiple cultures and religions around the world long before Hitler co-opted it as the symbol of the Nazi party.

Think Progress » Frank Gaffney Posits That Missile Defense Logo Is Evidence of Obama’s ‘Submission To Shariah’ 2010

The TEA party has been co-opted by the same old same old.

Think Progress » Tea Party Darling Marco Rubio And 35 Other Candidates Sign Pledge To Repeal Health Care Reform 2010

The Republican party and conservatives in general have had their movement co-opted (or hijacked, your preference) by the racist wackos in this country.

Movement 'coming from the soil of America,' conservative says 2009

Teabaggers may be ignorant, low-information, reactionary, racist and too stupid to know what their own best interests are, but they appeal to a growing segment of voters who feel disenfranchised — that they have been co-opted by the RNC and angered some of them, splintering the teagagging movement, is immaterial — republicans know how to organize and keep everyone on message.

Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 20, 2010 2010

Beware libertarians your movement is being co-opted by the Bushies and neo-cons.

Think Progress » Murdoch: ‘I Don’t Think’ Fox News ‘Should Be Supporting The Tea Party’ 2010

Your being co-opted by people that were never TEA partiers.

Think Progress » Bachmann: ‘We’re hoping that President Obama’s policies don’t succeed.’ 2010

They pay for their political campaign and to be shagged, repeatedly, and never seem to learn from the co-opted experience.

Think Progress » Kerry: ‘The only thing Republicans say yes to are Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, tea partiers, and Fox News.’ 2010

The freedoms granted by the Constitution are being co-opted by them and perverted so that laws necessary for a civilized society are a threat to them.

Think Progress » CPAC audience boos former GOP Rep. Bob Barr for saying waterboarding is torture. 2010

In other words they are being co-opted by the same folks as before.

Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010