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The phrase "he has commandeered" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone who has taken control or possession of something, often without permission, typically in a military or authoritative context. Example: "During the emergency, he has commandeered the vehicle to transport the injured to the hospital."
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He has commandeered subway trains, and taken buses for joyrides.
He has commandeered his son's bedroom – the quietest room in his house in north London – to get a better night's sleep, buying a daylight alarm clock (which imitates a sunrise), set for 3am just to be sure.
This enterprising cleric has, among much else, rewired the generators in a nearby textile factory to power the neighbourhood when the mains fail, as they constantly do.He has commandeered Saddam Hussein's personal bakery to supply the masses, and he has supervised the looting of medicines from state warehouses to redistribute them free to local hospitals.
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Police said he had turned himself in to a Safeway employee after driving there in a vehicle he had commandeered from one of his victims.
All recalled a red Volkswagen Passat car (which Lukic had coveted, whose owner he was said to have shot and which he had commandeered) present at the scene.
Colonel Hubner was resting in the cool afternoon gloom of the living room of a house that he had commandeered for his headquarters in southern Samarra.
When Captain DeMure arrived, Mr. Mohammad told him the government's logistics system was such a failure that he owed $3,400 to shopkeepers for goods he had commandeered to keep his police station fed and supplied.
The documents also say he then hijacked the accounts and routed e-mail messages to MicroPatent from them; he used wireless home networks he had commandeered to hack into MicroPatents computer network and occasionally made use of online accounts at the University of Marylands student computer lab, which he had also anonymously penetrated.
Simon Burns MP, the minister of state for transport, sparked anger on Sunday when it emerged he had commandeered one of his department's two pool cars to carry him to and from his constituency home in Chelmsford rather than use the regular and much cheaper 35-minute commuter service to Liverpool Street station.
To the reformocons' dismay, Trump has commandeered their target audience and tainted their high-minded proposals.
Across the museum's grounds, past the Kuwait Arena ("Tracked vehicle rides – £3"), director David Ayer has commandeered a hangar.
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