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The bike stations were usurping parking spots — churches depend on street parking.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2013

Furious Giraudists charged that the Fighting French were usurping power, plotting a coup.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would not do to make him feel as if his mother were usurping his place.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Beings of a ruder make were usurping their bodies.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine

Somewhat later he was sent to Balacbac, but remained there but a short time because of the complaints of the Recollects, who claimed that the Dominicans were usurping their territory.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen