arrogate

“Shortly thereafter, John embarked on a series of steps to arrogate to himself complete control over Mr. Angelos’ assets.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

They are truly generative, an apt term for a novel that queries a selfish inventor, his damaged creature and science’s threat to arrogate creation to itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2018

Judge Jackson said the action was “a stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself” that the law did not support.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2012

Unfortunately, they arrogate to themselves the same importance at conventions, upstaging the assembled party.

From Time Magazine Archive

At no point did Christ exalt Himself, or arrogate the glory once renounced.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay

The rapid team collapse was head-spinning news not only in Australia but also among worldwide fans of cricket, a sport that arrogates to itself a particular moral sanctimony.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

Where the Olympic Charter goes astray is on the very next page, on which the IOC arrogates for itself Supreme Authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

As such, it has been subject to attack time immemorial from every agency that fears new truth, or that arrogates to itself the exclusive possession of particular areas of truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is it that arrogates that authority to someone else?

From Time Magazine Archive

Who is he that arrogates to himself the right to slay where that right is of one alone?

From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

Today, we have a priest who has disbanded the pastoral council and arrogated governance to himself and his staff.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

To Covington & Burling, the answer was clear: it lay with Congress, and, if Trump arrogated that power to himself, the firm was prepared to take on a lawsuit pro bono.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018

He had arrogated to himself the privilege to call, and to assume the president would take his call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2018

“Yet in this case, Congress arrogated that power to itself.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2016

Gregorio Leti is right in attributing all the evils that have since arisen from the excessive authority which the priests have arrogated over laymen, to this conduct of Philip II.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

So, of course, it’s not just that he’s arrogating the piggy bank to himself.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

He’s also arrogating actual facts to himself, which makes this triply scary.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

In arrogating the priestly function, they gave up all claim to the royal office.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd

If all things were equal, Vladimir, I'd never dream of arrogating the interview to myself.

From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame, By arrogating Jonson's hostile name.

From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton