arrogated

past tense of arrogate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrogated
Verb
  • In Gaza, the same preparations were being made to receive 250 Palestinian prisoners convicted of serious crimes, and 1,700 who were seized by Israel during the war and held without charge, including 22 children.
    Richard Hall, Time, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Israel is to free some 250 Palestinians serving prison sentences, as well as around 1,700 people seized from Gaza the past two years and held without charge.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As Craigslist, Google, and Facebook usurped most of what newspapers counted on for ad revenue, my beloved industry cratered in all but the urban power centers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The news comes as the Cybertruck was recently usurped from its position as America's best-selling electric pickup truck in the first quarter of 2025.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Israel unleased a ferocious response that has claimed the lives of more then 67,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Yankees claimed a 9-6 comeback win, and announced their presence in the series with authority.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In his work recovering brands that hold emotional and nostalgic value for Cubans — many of which were created by businesses confiscated by the Cuban regime after 1959 — Haber has just launched Guayabita del Pinar in Miami.
    Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Nonetheless, the team was stopped and arrested briefly, the camera confiscated.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some of today’s most ubiquitous beauty trends were started by Latinas, appropriated by white mainstream audiences, and rebranded into something that only sounds new.
    Sofía Viera, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In addition, time has expired for spending money previously appropriated by Congress, so for all practical purposes, not only is the money gone, so too are the programs that the money was meant to fund.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, she was momentarily stopped when one concert goer grabbed her, violently yanking her backwards and into the barricade.
    Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The Bruins grabbed four points with back-to-back wins over the Blackhawks and Washington Capitals.
    Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For 30 years, the solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestinians was thought to be the Oslo Accords, the 1993 agreements meant to produce a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza, territory that Israel had conquered in 1967 and militarily occupied since.
    Karl Vick, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The Swedish military occupied the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during that time.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Arrogated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrogated. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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