as in to usurp
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Ultimately, China’s recent AI progress, instead of usurping U.S. strength, might in fact be the beginning of a reordering—a step, in other words, toward a future where, instead of a hegemonic power, there are many competing centers of AI power.—
Billy Perrigo,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025 -
Simply put, private parties have no right to take advantage of the government, and when no one is watching enter contracts that usurp powers that belong to the public.—
Tom Geoghegan,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
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In August 2024, a federal jury in Los Angeles found Tom guilty of embezzling more than $15 million from his clients, slapping him with four counts of wire fraud.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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Her lawyer spoke Wednesday for the last time at the trial in Paris on charges of embezzling European Parliament funds.—
Sylvie Corbet,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Nov. 2024
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When the bride steps away, other women can seize the moment to give the groom a friendly peck.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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When Yardley submitted the manuscript to Macmillan in February 1933, a U.S. marshal seized and impounded it under the Espionage Act of 1917, which prohibited taking secret documents.—
Peter Zablocki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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Streeter wonders what decisions might have preempted the military coup: for example, Allende might have tried to negotiate a coalition government with the center-right Christian Democrats or agreed to a plebiscite on his rule.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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As long as California’s rules meet the conditions laid out in section 209, they cannot be preempted by the federal rules.—
Peter Douglas,
The Mercury News,
5 Jan. 2025
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Grant intends to use the murder as leverage at an imminent hearing that could see Chinatowns across the United States appropriated by the government, a move that would effectively drive the migrant population out of the country.—
James Marsh,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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Several Democrats pushed Lutnick to commit to dispersing federal subsidies appropriated by Congress, for example for broadband access, even if President Trump directs him otherwise.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
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Live location tracking could be misused by stalkers or those with bad intentions.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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Regulations set forth by agencies like FinCEN, SEC, FINRA and the OCC serve as the foundation to promote financial transparency and deter and detect those who misuse the U.S. Financial System to launder criminal proceeds or finance terrorist acts.—
Indranil Debnath,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Disney arrogates those traits, skills, and experiences, essentially using modern female ideals to challenge traditional masculine ideals.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 Dec. 2024
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Back before the federal government arrogated to itself an outsize role as financier of college education, the Wayne States of the world were where ambitious people who didn’t have a lot of money, who wanted to save money on college, or both, got their degrees.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
12 Oct. 2024
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His service items, including his badge and firearm, were also confiscated.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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We were interrogated, the contents of our suitcase was kind of picked through and things were confiscated.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Peculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculate. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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