reappropriate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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reappropriatesimple
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reappropriatessimple
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have reappropriatedperfect
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has reappropriatedperfect
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am reappropriatingprogressive
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are reappropriatingprogressive
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is reappropriatingprogressive
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have been reappropriatingperfect progressive
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has been reappropriatingperfect progressive
Past
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reappropriatedsimple
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had reappropriatedperfect
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was reappropriatingprogressive
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were reappropriatingprogressive
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had been reappropriatingperfect progressive
Future
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Ben Berman, a New York City vegan who began a serious weightlifting regimen last year, said he's trying to reappropriate the epithet "soy boy," historically used to emasculate vegan and vegetarian men.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
Groups that see themselves as victimized often tend to reappropriate accusatory language, and social media makes for a useful place to experiment with identities and test out the public’s reaction.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2022
According to the show’s curator, Kristen Hileman, this technique places Waters within the “Picture Generation,” a group of contemporary artists such as Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman who reappropriate commercial images to criticize bourgeois values.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2018
Canadian comedians, she wrote in a research paper, were adopting “camp,” a form of humor often used by gay performers to ironically reappropriate homophobic slurs and stereotypes as points of pride.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
Now you seek to reappropriate this water, or to have the right cancelled, and see where you wind up.
From The Iron Furrow by Botkin, Henry A.
In this way, Leigh reappropriates a portrait initially depicted through a lens of colonialism, literally recasting it in bronze.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
It reappropriates Mr. Sullivan’s own work and uses it to celebrate the ways Native Hawaiians have reclaimed his photographs, plaster busts and tools to learn about their ancestors, genealogy and family.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2021
The authors found that the click-through rate—that is the number of users who clicked on an ad—was 7.12% when the store reappropriated the insult compared with 5.62% for the group shown the denial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Small funds began to be awarded to researchers soon thereafter; and finally, in 2020, funds were reappropriated by the U.S.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
However, despite that history, the flag has been reappropriated over the last 10 years.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023
That film’s title gets reappropriated in the director Lana Wilson’s absorbing documentary, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which emulsifies its biography of Shields with lucid insights into the culture that shaped her.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
It gave him the feeling that she had reclaimed, reappropriated him.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
I’ve been making these minimal newsprint collages for quite a few years now, and I did it mostly for a kind of solitary escape, a form of automatic writing, but with reappropriating visual things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
There is some interesting discussion about reappropriating wealth.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2022
The courthouse is full, though, so accommodating a new judge would mean reappropriating an occupied room.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Last May, she cleverly auctioned off an NFT, or nonfungible token, of a photo of herself standing next to the Richard Prince print, coolly reappropriating Prince’s appropriation of her image.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
Taking and reappropriating some of their IP and brands, I find fun.
From The Verge ● Jan. 3, 2020
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