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
  • Trent has shown off-the-dribble pizzazz but doesn’t get to the rim nearly enough to weaponize.
    — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Trump’s attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper.
    — Zeke Miller, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
  • And the Lakers, of course, have LeBron James, whom the team is starting to weaponize as a center.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Food has been weaponized in the last couple of decades in that very specific way, for sure.
    — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 26 June 2019
  • But the topic here was wolves, and that weaponized everything.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • But the spam is more than just an annoyance; it can also be weaponized.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
  • How might this be weaponized for some bizarre narrative?
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 17 July 2023
  • That is something that the right has figured out and weaponized and the left is grappling with and wading into.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • But as the number of lake trout decline, there will be fewer carcasses to weaponize against the eggs.
    — National Geographic, 21 June 2019
  • 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
  • Rather than just being used for spying, this was the decade the digital world was weaponized to break through to the physical.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2019
  • There have been other moments in which Teigen has been able to take her influence and weaponize it for truth.
    — Gillian Laab, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Duncan was far more fortunate than most young men who have their lyrics weaponized against them in court.
    — Erik Nielson, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2020
  • As a result, the platforms have been weaponized and used to incite violence.
    — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • What is clear, however, is that an adult white woman weaponized the police against an 8-year-old black girl.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 28 June 2018
  • 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
  • My Dark Vanessa is a minefield in which language itself has been weaponized.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Comparing the two is, arguably, an attempt to weaponize the rhetoric of social justice.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The defendants fear that the suit may embolden bad actors to weaponize copyright law against talented and successful authors.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • National security officials warn that dynamic means the app could be weaponized against the U.S.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025

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