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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
commandeer .
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Examples
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Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Through the day, about 800 black-clad militiamen with Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers have been patrolling city streets in commandeered police vehicles.
Running back? Richard 2006
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He's been administering to officers with supplies commandeered from a nearby pharmacy.
Archive 2005-09-01 Slimbolala 2005
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He's been administering to officers with supplies commandeered from a nearby pharmacy.
Austin Slimbolala 2005
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In the photo above, by the way, notice the phrasing of the caption describing how they "occupied" -- rather than "took over" or "commandeered" -- the building linguistically connecting the actions of this militant element to the name of the non-violent movement.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: As Agitators Occupy Occupy, Will Media Call It Out? Michael Shaw 2011
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Philadelphia officers kill East Germantown man after a chase Police officers shot and killed an East Germantown man Saturday night after he rammed one of them with a car he had commandeered from a Chinese-food delivery driver, authorities said.
Phillies Zone 2011
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But RCTs were developed to forestall irrational medical exuberance and "cast doubt on clinical enthusiasms about new treatments," he argues, not to demonstrate "treatment effects of dubious significance," the inverse use for which the pharmaceutical industry has "commandeered" RCTs.
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But RCTs were developed to forestall irrational medical exuberance and "cast doubt on clinical enthusiasms about new treatments," he argues, not to demonstrate "treatment effects of dubious significance," the inverse use for which the pharmaceutical industry has "commandeered" RCTs.
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Mugabe had "commandeered" an Air Zimbabwe plane to go on holiday.
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The three were arrested on Saturday after the newspaper reported on Friday that Mugabe last week "commandeered" an Air Zimbabwe
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