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New Mexico is appropriating money linked to a financial windfall linked to record-breaking oil production in the Permian Basin.

From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2019

In a wide-ranging Q&A, we chat about everything from school design under segregation to why Silicon Valley is appropriating kid design.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2018

Mounting evidence also suggests China is appropriating proprietary technology from Western firms and then using it to compete directly in ever more advanced fields.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2011

It is appropriating the difference between two natural values neither of which the railroad itself fixes.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates

Without your valuable aid I shall manage to punish the insolent old fellow; but Your Honour the Count is appropriating the castle ahead of time, before the decree is pronounced.

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall