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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

Yet my throat moved to see him Usurping, with one hand on Raleigh's arm, A kind of ownership.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

Usurping general in period of the Three Kingdoms; and Kuan Yü, 116 Tso Ch’ih.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

Ill usury my favours reap from thee, Usurping Sol, the hate of heaven and earth.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew