Verb (used with object) : The fledgling Labor party was coopted by the Socialist party. ,The dissidents have coopted the title of her novel for their slogan.    From Dictionary.com. 

GEORGE: This is the audacity of co-option, if anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2008] Reference

We wonder what differences Mangena's co-option would make.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Now through this co-option, many are seeing the demise of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is supporting political parties and front-runners more important than our country?] Reference

Only to have it "kicked out" when you invoke co-option again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

Provision should be made at the very least for the co-option of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Tuesday on his possible co-option into Nelson Mandela's cabinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This is not a government of unity, but of coercion and co-option.    From Wordnik.com.  [GroundReport: Zimbabwe Skeptical As Tsvangirai Joins Government] Reference

It's going to take leadership to turn co-option into co-operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RJ Eskow: Co-op, Co-opt, Cop-Out: Conjugating Health Reform] Reference

He has become a victim -- and I jotted it down -- of subtle co-option.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Has the Press Fallen in Love With John McCain? - February 12, 2000] Reference

Data patterns that indicate an IC state is not explained by co-option.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Mixing Science and Theology is OK] Reference

Command, which had powers of co-option and which could, and did, appoint.    From Wordnik.com.  [I am Prepared to Die] Reference

"Such a model must be based on real co-operation, and not on co-option.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The results produced by this co-option of language goes far beyond tragic.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Ignorance Rules] Reference

Friday morning to facilitate their co-option into the organising committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The '60s were coming to an end, and the quality of co-option would not be strained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Krassner: On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock] Reference

Such co-option is not non-racialism and the world should not be deceived that it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For example, for the flagellum, you are forced, because of IC, to use a co-option scenario.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

CJYman: co-option, etc. will not generate from a program devoid of intelligent programming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Teeth] Reference

Can we please stay in the realm of reality here and say "some psychologists teach co-option"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off] Reference

The thing which the Obama administration has been unable to do is to master that level of co-option.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Ross: Barack Obama and the Downside of Turning Down Lobbyists] Reference

If you are referring to co-option or some other idea, it is not clear how that helps the picture at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe's Test] Reference

In between co-option events there are a lot of point mutations and natural selection going on as always.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

Leon said that voters rejected the NNP's co-option by the ANC and the narrow option of far-right parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

MET posits an evolutionary process involving co-option, and points to similar systems in related organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision] Reference

But you can propose a simpler precursor to flagella but again you're forced to invoke co-option because of IC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

The Clinton doctrine of discursive co-option is wrongly invoked in the Clinton's references to LBJ's effectiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Grossman: Obama v. Clinton: Hope and Anti-Hope] Reference

There was a need to lead this country to economic growth and black economic empowerment, as opposed to black co-option.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Their numbers would be renewed by co-option, so as to preserve the secrecy of techniques handed down from ancient times.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - all mud and witches] Reference

A complex biological system might force a scientist to invoke co-option as a part of the explanation for it's evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

All of these things together go to form the full explanation for the evolution of said complex system, not co-option alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

As I said earlier, scientists were quite happily 'invoking' co-option – and demonstrating it – long before IC came along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

But I don't want to talk about the happy-go-lucky Orwellian co-option of Progressive language so many have slavishly accepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Gene Sullivan: What's So Wrong with Being a Peace-Loving, Tree-Hugging, Red Feminist Lawyer?] Reference

Clear powersharing (as opposed to co-option) at executive level in a government of national unity with special powers for Mr de.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Occasional vacancies may be filled by it, provided that a report is made to the next PGC on the co-option and filling of vacancies.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS WOMEN'S LEAGUE CONSTITUTION] Reference

Leon also urged Mbeki to bow to medical science with regard to the treatment of HIV/Aids and announce the co-option of more reputable.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

When exactly was there opportunity for co-option, illicit cooperation, or corruption at any point in time in their political careers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discourse.net: Wouldn't It Be Nice if Obama Pardoned Thomas M. Tamm?] Reference

Beyond the sheer racism involved, the most troubling elements of this Civil Rights co-option is its divisiveness and anti-intellectualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kaufman: Co-Opted: Marriage Equality's Civil Rights Rip-Off] Reference