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Usurping incumbent openers Abhishek Sharma, the top-ranked T20 batter in the world and Sanju Samson - India's match-winner in the semi-final and final of this year's World Cup - will be an almighty challenge.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Usurping some of the spotlight before Super Bowl XLIII, Nowinski flew with doctors from Boston University’s C.T.E.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping Ivy, Brier, or idle Moss.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

If ought possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping Ivy, Brier, or idle Moss.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

Usurping the empyreal realm of the eagle, he assumes for a time the port and dignity of that majestic bird, and often is mistaken for him by ignorant crawlers upon the earth.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington