Thesaurus results for ARROGATING

arrogating

verb

present participle of arrogate

as in seizing

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right arrogated the corner office without obtaining prior approval

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Recent Examples of arrogating But all of those ideas for spending or tax rebates, again, all of those are congressional authority that the president is arrogating to himself—something else that would have startled the founders of the country all those 250 years ago. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025

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Kepler is clearly focused on seizing this second chance and putting his past behind him.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
The party has focused on driving down consumer costs, seizing on what polling shows is deep dissatisfaction about the economy and worries about affordability.

— Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 5 July 2026

Definition of seizing

Verb

Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026
The opposition’s narrative that Hollywood is usurping home rule is entirely backward.

— Keith Poliakoff, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2026

Definition of usurping

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In some videos, survivors accused soldiers of looting apartments and confiscating donated supplies—claims that remain difficult to independently verify but have fueled widespread outrage.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
Amid anecdotal reports that airport security services have been confiscating bottles of ranch dressing that sports tourists have tried to smuggle out of the country, Kraft Heinz came up with a TSA-friendly size of ranch dressing.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 June 2026

Definition of confiscating

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Also requested were documents related to a lawsuit, recently settled for $135,000, claiming Kramer had given an improper assessment of a property and retaliated against an employee who complained.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
In December, former employee Joshua Denton sued the brewery, claiming management ignored years of warnings about OSHA safety violations, did not comply with ADA regulations and wrongfully terminated him.

— Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026

Definition of claiming

Verb

Americans are grabbing their passports and fleeing the country in hopes of leaving the nation’s problems behind.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Swanson argues those behind-the-scenes improvements have done more to modernize logistics than many of the industry’s headline-grabbing automation projects.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 2 July 2026

Definition of grabbing

Verb

Peterson left office in 2017 after pleading guilty to stealing from his own campaign fund.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
He’s accused of stealing $3 million from the client’s Northern Trust account involving about 200 transactions over a decade until he was fired from the private wealth-management bank in fall 2024.

— Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026

Definition of stealing

Verb

In 2021, the Minnetonka shoe company apologized for culturally appropriating Native American culture, and committed to supporting the community.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
At first glance, the pairing might seem like an unconventional one, even though both artists are well known for appropriating others’ images.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026

Definition of appropriating

Verb

Egypt brought the calm, cool, collected factors to the shootout, converting on all four attempts from Mahmoud Saber, Rami Rabia, Mohamed Salah and Hossam Abdelmaguid.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2026
The key difference lies in the process for converting the fissile material to be bomb usable (chemical reprocessing in the case of plutonium, rather than enrichment, which can be done covertly and in small batches).

— Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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