reappropriate
verb (used with object)
to take back and redistribute, reassign, or use in a new way.
reappropriates
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present tense formof reappropriate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
