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Large amounts of vitamins such as niacin can be toxic and may cause harmful effects if they are taken without appropriate medical oversight.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
When is yelling at an official ever appropriate?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The investigation involves state police and the country's security agency, it said, adding that an update would be "provided at the appropriate time".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“I believe this review is entirely appropriate and necessary, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help determine exactly what occurred,” Strada said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
“The more appropriate question,” Mr. Hodge said teasingly, “would be, ‘When are we?’”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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The recently enacted budget appropriates money for detention facilities, but it doesn’t require children to be detained.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025
Reed included the language in a dedicated subsection of the Senate report accompanying the bill, which appropriates the money that funds the activities of the State Department among other priorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
On the other hand, it allocates — or appropriates — money to carry out those policies.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
Among billions of dollars appropriated for semiconductor manufacturing and scientific research, the act appropriates $32.5 million to combat sex-based harassment in STEM.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2023
In their earlier years it is the imagination that appropriates the images and events of history.
From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock
After President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Congress renamed the center after him in 1964 and appropriated money to help finance its construction and core mission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“It was all appropriated guitar bodies which Lucien had then turned into wall sculpture by either painting or adorning them with bottle caps, glitter, tin foil, etc,” Powers wrote in Office Magazine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
To be sure, the president and the executive branch are charged with lawfully implementing congressional directives about the dispersal of appropriated funds.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Every dollar appropriated, he added, would be used to build the "lethality" of US military forces and "reinforce peace through strength".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Originally destined for the lab’s finance department, enterprising researchers soon appropriated the machines for their own purposes.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Seventeen years ago, Stockett published “The Help,” and some objected to her, as a white woman, appropriating Black speech patterns and cultural themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
To Palantir’s old guard, the FDE remains as deeply misunderstood as ever, despite its newfound fame — a role that rivals are culturally appropriating while ignoring the often grueling engineering process it entails.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026
Global fashion brand Prada has announced a line of limited-edition footwear inspired by Indian-made Kolhapuri sandals, months after it faced backlash for allegedly appropriating the sandal's design.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
The memo concluded that Congress still needs to pass “express language appropriating funds for back pay for furloughed employees, or such payments cannot be made.”
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2025
By appropriating the language of genes and inheritance, entire systems of power and statehood were justified and reinforced.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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