arrogate
verb (used with object)
to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right.
have arrogated
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present perfectof arrogate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But journalists have arrogated it to themselves in disproportionate numbers.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2018
The describes the court verdict a "damning indictment of the man who is seen to have arrogated all powers vested in India's premier sports institution, leading to the current mess".
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2014
Specifically about the controversy stirred up by some academics who have arrogated to themselves spurious authority to discard parts of Hamlet.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2012
Now words had been the greatest concern of his "A," or Age Memory, and words, it must be admitted, have arrogated to themselves the lion's share of this strange faculty that we call remembering.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The most numerous is that of the peasants, who, however, meddle but little with the cultivation of the soil, but have arrogated to themselves the exclusive and hereditary possession of all employments, lay or ecclesiastical.
