usurped

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The later stages of the show highlight a few transitional designers whose work either shaped or anticipated the Midcentury Modernist movement that usurped Art Deco.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

In claiming power to give France a new constitution, Mr. Hardman notes, the assembly “had usurped the rights of the people as well as the king.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

In 2023, according to Guiness, a farmer in Quebec usurped Cool Patch for the title to world’s largest maze.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

But over recent decades, ideas around society-level eugenics have been usurped by the more modern cult of self-improvement.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2024

And because they were still hungry and didn’t want to waste food, they picked the hot dogs off the grass and ate them right before a flock of seagulls usurped them.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez