usurpation

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Noun
  • The Golden Power legislation enables the Italian government to intercede or set conditions on foreign and domestic corporate takeovers in key sectors, including banking.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 23 May 2025
  • The journey picks up again on May 30 and heads to Cannes, with a takeover of the Armani/Caffè terrace, and then heads to Capri, where a Giorgio Armani boutique opened in April on Via Camerelle that was designed to evoke the atmosphere of seaside destinations.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • During appearances last week before the House and Senate appropriations committees, Duffy boasted about saving taxpayers nearly $10 billion during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
  • Fieldhouse and Mertens estimate that approximately 14 years passes between an appropriation shock and its peak effect on productivity growth.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • What starts to come into view is that Laura had a daughter who looks suspiciously like Piper, and that perhaps Laura has tried this trick before on Oliver, who can’t leave the premises without having a grand mal seizure.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
  • On May 5, 2025, the Education Department officially resumed collections on defaulted loans, including tax refund offsets, wage garnishment of paychecks, and the seizure of Social Security benefits for the first time since 2020.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The city will need to approve the annexation at an upcoming meeting.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2025
  • His use of the term appeasement echoed the criticism of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who conceded Germany’s annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in 1938 before World War II.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 8 May 2025
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“Usurpation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/usurpation. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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