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Co-optation
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CO-OPTATION. A concurring choice. Sometimes applied to the act of the members of a corporation, in choosing a person to supply a vacancy. in their body.


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Could the OEMs follow the radio model and co-opt these products?
Or if it's all just a masquerade designed strictly to co-opt the issues of prospective re-election rivals, with him planning all the while to revert to his former self once re-elected.
When he marbleizes, Melee is channeling Pollock (and Stewart) by way of Warhol (that master of polyvalent meaning), who may have been the first artist to co-opt Pollock's macho paint-flinging with his "Oxidization Paintings.
 
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