as in to usurp
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In 2022, the Lab was usurped by the French Bulldog, who kept the most popular title for 2023.Kelli Bender, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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While the citizens decide to build a firewall to keep out newcomers (A King and Queen potentially showing up and usurping Prince and Princess?David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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This includes staging a lottery only to embezzle the funds and disappear overnight—or to rig it so that a predetermined recipient is awarded the cash paid by other participants.Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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For the laundering charge, Smith is accused of initiating the transfer of $65,000 in funds embezzled from the conservancy from a bank account held by The Joseph Group & Associates LLC to an account held by First Round Management LLC on or about Sept. 24, 2021.Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2024
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Even more dangerous is the possibility that a Ukrainian missile strike or territorial takeover could throw a storage site into operational chaos, allowing rogue actors to seize its nuclear warheads—or inadvertently prompt Russian nuclear escalation.William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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Now is the time for agencies and advertisers to seize the initiative by implementing the five key actions outlined in the Ad Net Zero framework.Ivan Guzenko, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The result is not just more efficient service but also an entirely new approach that preempts problems before customers even have to ask for help.Tony Bradley, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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To preempt individual countries’ protectionist impulses to bring investments home—which would replicate the inefficiencies of Europe’s small-scale, national weapons production—the European Political Community should negotiate a framework for joint research and development.Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
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In biotech, the Biden-Harris administration agreed at the World Trade Organization that countries can void patent protections on the mRNA technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines, essentially inviting China and other hostile nations to appropriate our intellectual property.Andrei Iancu, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
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This rapid spending rate means Congress may need to appropriate billions more in disaster funding for the agency earlier than expected.Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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Risk factors for systolic heart failure include having a history of smoking, misusing alcohol or drugs, and being overweight or obese.8 Diagnosis Healthcare providers can diagnose systolic congestive heart failure using your medical history, performing a physical exam, and running some tests.Alexandria Nyembwe, PhD, RN, Health, 4 Nov. 2024
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Race and ethnicity are used to categorize Americans often, but according to the report, these categories can be misused in scientific analyses.Kaan Ozcan, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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Back before the federal government arrogated to itself an outsize role as financier of college education, the Wayne States of the world were where ambitious people who didn’t have a lot of money, who wanted to save money on college, or both, got their degrees.John Tamny, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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In every period, the essence of politics has been that a tin-pot tsar who wants to arrogate to himself the right to personal, unaccountable power needs to intimidate the honest people who are not afraid of him.Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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In November, 2015, Turkish authorities confiscated nearly eleven million tablets hidden inside a shipment of oil filters headed for the Gulf.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers confiscated more than 175 pounds of the drug during a traffic stop involving a Dodge Ram pickup on IH-35 in Webb Country.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Peculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculate. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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