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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.