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hi·jack·ing

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  1. highjacking, hijackingnoun

    robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force

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    highjacking

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  1. Waljit Dhillo:

    So many people say to themselves, ‘It’s just me. I’ve got a problem.’ But actually, HSDD may be how your brain is wired, the biology is telling us there’s increased activation of inhibitory areas in the brain — the same areas that tell us it’s not OK to walk around in public naked — and those areas are switching off sexual desire. How can we tackle that? We give a hormone that would naturally give you increased sexual desire, essentially hijacking the normal system.

  2. Raeisha Williams:

    It’s like our voices are not heard — they are hijacking a movement yet again and making it their own.

  3. Dave McCormick:

    I'm Dave McCormick, i've been fighting my whole life from wrestling in this gym to one just like it at West Point. I fought for freedom in Iraq and American capitalism, not socialism. And now I'm running for the US Senate to fight the woke mob, hijacking America's future.

  4. Marcus Munafò:

    That obviously doesn't mean that alcohol is healthy, what it means is that alcohol is sort of hijacking that mechanism, or promoting the aspects of facial features that we regard as attractive for other reasons.

  5. Brent Tjarks:

    We were a victim of a teleconference or Zoom hijacking and we are trying to understand what we need to do going forward to prevent this from ever happening again. It is an incident we deeply regret, we have had various programs and this is something that we have never had happen to us.


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