arrogate
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“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
But she became annoyed when the overbearing chief of staff seemed to arrogate presidential decision-making responsibilities to himself during Reagan's convalescence from cancer surgery in 1985.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But what I mean is that, if she isn't going to advance quite definitely, there really isn't any longer an excuse for her to arrogate to herself a special code of behavior."
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
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