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Its neighbor to the south, Greece, had objected for years to allowing the Balkan nation into the military alliance, asserting it was appropriating classical Greek heritage with its name.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024

Q. community, “not as if Taco Bell was appropriating drag for the sake of tacos.”

From New York Times • May 27, 2022

"But he was doing the same thing he had always done, which was appropriating sounds and culture and making them his own."

From BBC • May 25, 2022

But after protests from indigenous activists that Mr. Durant was appropriating their history, the artist dismantled his own work, and made its wood available to be burned in a Dakota Sioux ceremony.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2017

Besides, he took into account the quality of the objects which he was appropriating.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster