is reappropriating
- present progressive of reappropriate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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What we’re doing in Little Tokyo, as Asian Americans, is reappropriating table tennis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Instead, she is reappropriating the rape joke as a feminist tool, challenging entrenched cultural attitudes surrounding rape and parts of the stand-up scene that have failed to move beyond a misogynistic past.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2015