weaponize

Verb

Meaning

make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon

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Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory? Source: Internet

Based on this evidence, one can posit that online spaces like Parler bring already like-minded individuals together and weaponize pre-existing prejudices to push extremist thought into the realm of extremist action. Source: Internet

Both bans were enacted in response to long-simmering concerns over Kaspersky Lab’s links to Russia’s intelligence community, and fears that the company could be compelled under Russian law to weaponize their code to spy on U.S. government networks. Source: Internet

But if you do, why was it OK for Hillary Clinton to secretly hire a foreign spy to get dirt on her opponent from Kremlin officials, and seed that info into the media and weaponize it in the US gov't? Source: Internet

He knows, at least in his heart, that such a demand could never be realized, any more than could a Chinese request to support and “weaponize” the existence of a high-powered Cuba 150 kilometers from Florida. Source: Internet

But then, conservatives who’ve learned to play this “weaponize your past statements” game, started digging up and exposing his old, deleted tweets. Source: Internet

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