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Grammy winner Erykah Badu says conservatives have misappropriated ‘woke’ and explains its meaning after popularizing the term on her 2000s song ‘Master Teacher.’

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2023

Facebook “identified approximately 10,000 applications that may also have misappropriated and/or misused consumers’ personal data,” according to court documents also unveiled Friday from Massachusetts’ attorney general, which has been probing Facebook’s data-collection practices for months.

From Washington Post Sep. 20, 2019

“Legal defenses have misappropriated the disorder,” Comstock concluded.

From The New Yorker Jun. 26, 2019

Yellowbird-Chase said she couldn't have misappropriated funds because she never had access to PayPal accounts where money was collected for Olivia's search, and any crowdfunding she did was for the Sahnish Scouts.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2019

If they detect any magistrate in embezzlement, the jury condemn him for theft, and he is obliged to repay tenfold the sum he is declared to have misappropriated.

From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir