appropriated

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Made for ‘Ugh,’ Appropriated for ‘Oooh’ Punk didn’t play nice.

From New York Times • May 9, 2013

Congress: Appropriated a total of $52.9 billion, $13.3 billion less than Harry Truman proposed and $3.9 billion less than Dwight Eisenhower requested.

From Time Magazine Archive

More specifically, the 78th, neither the best nor the worst Congress in U.S. history, had: � Appropriated $277 billion to the Army & Navy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The House: Appropriated $1,000,000 for the relief of drought-stricken farmers in New Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appropriated by organized religion, it discarded here and there its more bestial features, adopted more refined religious conceptions, its scope was gradually reduced, and finally it vanished from religious usage.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris