How to Use weaponize in a Sentence

weaponize

verb
Definition of weaponizenext
  • That's just a taste of how this app could be weaponized.
    — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • And will there be any big gaffes that one side can weaponize against the other?
    — Heather Hendershot / Made By History, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • Swift isn’t the only celeb to weaponize SEO in their favor.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Hip-hop lyrics have, for years, been weaponized in U.S. courtrooms.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
  • And the Lakers, of course, have LeBron James, whom the team is starting to weaponize as a center.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • How might this be weaponized for some bizarre narrative?
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 July 2023
  • His job was to harness their powers to fight disease rather than weaponize it.
    — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Young Thug is one of the latest examples of an artist having his lyrics weaponized against him in the courtroom.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2024
  • On Succession, drinking and dining tend to be weaponized in the service of satire.
    — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Trump wanted to weaponize the vice presidency to try to stay in power.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2022
  • Like Dakhil, Sarandon’s words were quickly twisted and weaponized against her.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The bot’s owners have always weaponized our worst and best impulses.
    — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Arondir and his friends attempt a prison break, which at first seems to go well when the elves weaponize the orcs' vulnerability against the sun.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Arizona beat the Phillies by weaponizing its speed and aggression.
    — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But guns weaponize mental illness and escalate the tragedy.
    — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • If the Fjerdans weaponize this drug, the consequences would be unimaginable.
    — Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2023
  • But, at the end of the day, the recall just seems like sour grapes from a union weaponizing the recall process in a retaliatory manner.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Almost overnight, the world is forced to deal with the fact that the same young women who frequently are harassed and abused by men are now weaponized by nature.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Just three years later, the term DEI has become weaponized and cast as the villain in the economic or social issue of the moment.
    — Joelle Emerson, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • However, these prompts can also be weaponized against the system.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But that power also begins to be weaponized, opening a bitter, new front in the culture war.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In recent years, the word has been weaponized as a rallying cry against progressive ideas and policies.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • His artistic expression that was weaponized against him in court decades prior.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
  • Anya Taylor-Joy has done the same thing her whole acting career and can weaponize her wide-eyed innocence in the same way Stefani did.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Austen then tried to weaponize that information against Craig when the guys got into a fight during one of Paige's visits down South.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2022
  • But by the mid-1980s, there was a strong and well-funded conservative movement ready to welcome—and weaponize—students like him.
    — Moira Weigel, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Mug shots have, through history, been weaponized in different ways.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • At the front line, the cold and relentless artillery may be Russia's only hope to weaponize winter and freeze Ukraine's momentum.
    — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Critics contend the law is being weaponized to specifically target Black hip-hop artists, who should be free to express themselves.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 13 July 2024
  • This election is about courage and willingness to fight the political class that have weaponized our institutions.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024

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