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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hijack" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to the act of unlawfully seizing control of something, such as a vehicle or a system.
Example: "The authorities were alerted to a hijack in progress on the commercial flight."
Alternatives: "an interception" or "a takeover".
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For it is a hijack.
We may have a hijack.
8 53:23 Controller: "We may have a hijack.
But in a hijack, pilots should have time to send out a distress signal.
"He had done a killing that looked like a hijack," said the receptionist.
It too was conducted as a hijack by the government with no public discussion.
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The problem was that the captain, Timothy Cheney, and the first officer, Richard I. Cole, in the isolation of a hijack-proof cockpit, were glued to their laptops, puzzling over a new scheduling system.
Everybody thought this was a hijacking.
A circus, some commentators called the debate, or a hijacking.
"A hijacking was not a bolt out of the blue".
"After this trip, a hijacking looks good," Mrs. Marena says.
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