as in to usurp
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Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025 -
Powell – a more effective version of the combo guard archetype that Rozier is classified under – seems poised to usurp the 10-year veteran on the Heat’s depth chart.—
Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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In the mid-2000s, his partners at The Dentistry accused him of supposedly stealing and embezzling money from the practice, per Rolling Stone.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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The station accused its former general manager Jun Reina of embezzling from the station in another civil lawsuit seeking to seize Reina’s West Sacramento home.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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Investigators noted that one of the devices that was seized could not be examined because it was encrypted, the warrant affidavit said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
22 July 2025
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Marino revealed to This American Life that during the early days of filming the reality show, Butler approached him about selling large amounts of marijuana that had been seized in drug raids by Wielsch.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
22 July 2025
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The administration also contends that the federal law overseeing egg quality and packaging preempts state laws that seek to impose additional requirements on egg production.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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The lawsuit, which also names Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta and other state officials, contends that a 1970 federal law regulating egg quality and packaging preempts state laws that seek to impose additional requirements on egg production.—
Esther Sun,
Mercury News,
10 July 2025
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The legislation revoked $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting dollars that Congress had previously appropriated.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
29 July 2025
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The Guild filed a class action lawsuit in May against the NEH and the Department of Government Efficiency for terminating grants that had already been appropriated by Congress.—
GARY FIELDS,
Chicago Tribune,
26 July 2025
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Chappell misused state vehicles for personal use over weekends, holidays, and outside business hours, racking up unauthorized vehicle usage and mileage fees totaling more than $47,000 between August 2015 and January 2019, the news release said.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
23 July 2025
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Ice buckets in hotel rooms can carry germs if not used with a liner, as they've occasionally been misused in unsanitary ways.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
18 July 2025
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Like Mao and Deng before him, Xi Jinping has arrogated to himself great power.—
JOSEPH TORIGIAN,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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Politicians exist to spend, and Congress arrogated to itself what was left over after existing Social Security recipients were paid.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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From 2022 through 2024, law enforcement officials in California confiscated 139,017 guns used in crimes with identifiable serial numbers, according to the DOJ’s crime guns report.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
12 July 2025
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No charges have been pressed against Stone, but her family said her phone was confiscated.—
Joey Safchik,
NBC news,
10 July 2025
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“Peculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculate. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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