have appropriated
- present perfect of appropriate.
Example Sentences
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In the covered outdoor corridors, Irhil and the other families have appropriated the space, setting up planters on ledges, a dish-washing station in a classroom sink, and clotheslines between the columns.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
There was something liberating — validating even — to see an art form long demonized as vandalism, at the same time that large corporations have appropriated it, take over such a visible part of downtown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
One of the two researchers that Concytec has already removed from the registry was found to have appropriated the curriculum vitae of a Spanish researcher and republished articles by that researcher under their own name.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 21, 2023
Across the Global South, governments and corporations have appropriated fields, forests and rivers for development projects such as highways, hydropower plants and mines, displacing between 90 million and 100 million people in the 1990s alone.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
In the Brighton story, as Mr. Conway points out, the devil would appear to have remembered his former failure in drowning people, and to have appropriated the form which defeated him.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
