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co-optation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | co-option |
| Type of | appointment, assignment, designation, naming |
| Derivation | co-opt |
Examples of co-optation
co-optation
The trend toward co-optation of key social sectors continued in subsequent years.
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Overall, I feel inclined to resist co-optation, which is what Zizek's argument seems to imply.
From the markvernon.com
As a result of this second co-optation, now as an ally, the church was able to recover dramatically.
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There is, no doubt, a women's studies dissertation to be written on the recent co-optation of intuition by male crime-fighters on television.
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Nevertheless, as has been pointed out by numerous observers, there is little evidence that co-optation succeeded in mobilizing support for the regime beyond the most superficial level.
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The corporations were placed under a council and in a number of cases popular control was excluded altogether, the whole system being made one of co-optation.
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The first and perhaps the most significant insurgency was in Nagaland from the early 1950s until it was finally quelled in the early 1980s through a mixture of repression and co-optation.
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The problem for the co-optation of these drugs by conventional medicine is that practitioners of scientific medicine do not like unpredictability in their drugs.
From the scienceblogs.com
Schemes which directed a gradual co-optation, two to choose four, these six to choose more, and so in widening circles from a centre of officialdom, found much favour throughout the Middle Ages.
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