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But 36 active and former first responders filed a lawsuit, claiming that the statewide arrangement had usurped control of their retirement benefits.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2024

Videos emerged, too, of them confronting white demonstrators who had usurped the mantra of “black lives matter,” which gave birth to a movement for racial justice and police accountability, in seemingly random acts of defacement.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2020

Two hours after Harvey put up his picture, he returned to find someone had usurped him.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2019

It was a barely veiled suggestion that Adams, with his appointments, had usurped the will of the people.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2017

That of the Eleuths, the chief of them all, gradually subdued the others, and continued until the time of Kang Hi, to exercise over them the pre-eminence it had usurped.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de