have been appropriating
- present perfect progressive of appropriate.
Example Sentences
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Nationalists have countered that it’s the Koreans who have been appropriating China’s culture for centuries.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
He confessed that he might have been imprudent; that he might have been appropriating the energies and sympathies of a delightful woman, as a man is hardly justified in doing, unless—.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
