APPROPRIATED Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

appropriated

verb

past tense of appropriate

as in seized

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right archaeologists wrongfully appropriated artifacts excavated at ancient sites for their museums

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as in stole

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep you can't just appropriate somebody's term paper and put your name on it!

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Recent Examples of appropriated The delay and uncertainty mean Duryea and hundreds of small towns are still waiting on the federal government to disburse money that Congress already appropriated, says Andrew Rumbach, who studies disaster policy at the Urban Institute think tank. —

Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026 Attorneys for the federal government were only able to file a motion to reopen the case once Congress appropriated Justice Department funds. —

Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2026 But Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said in a statement to The Bee that the legal expenses more than paid for themselves when the state won back $188 billion in money that Congress had appropriated, but the administration was withholding. —

Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 23 Mar. 2026 Because the fee revenue is appropriated by Congress and most of it is not considered mandatory spending, TSA does not have control of the money. —

Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 23 Mar. 2026 In the meantime, the president has embarked on a plan to renovate the center, after Congress appropriated $257 million in funds as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. —

Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026 Just weeks after Congress appropriated 2026 funds for NIH, the administration is already stalling their release. —

Jenna Norton, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026 What isn’t clear is how much of the money appropriated by Congress is going to make its way into new grants for research. —

Brendan Cantwell, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026 The outlet also uncovered church documents showing more than $420,000 was allegedly appropriated by Shaleta, while noting the total could be as high as $1 million. —

Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026

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The department shared photos of what their officers seized, which included a gun and a baby bottle authorities say was filled with the drug mixture known as lean.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
In March, Hungarian counterterrorism authorities seized two trucks, owned by a Ukrainian bank, that were passing through the country on a routine cash-transport run from Vienna.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026