taken over
Meaning
"Taken over" means control or responsibility has passed to someone or something else. It often refers to a company, team, or task being assumed by a new owner or leader, sometimes abruptly.
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Examples
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government...
It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.