Sentence examples for appropriated the term from inspiring English sources

When the government derided them as infiltrators, protesters appropriated the term with pride.

In 1952, the playwright George Axelrod appropriated the term for a Broadway play about a husband's desire to stray.

A decade later, the Clash appropriated the term as a romantic catch-all for their own followers.

As early as 1888, Blondel appropriated the term pragmatisme, only to abandon it when he learned of American pragmatism, which was a more naturalistic philosophy than his own.

These transatlantic cars were known in the collector car world as hybrids long before manufacturers appropriated the term to describe their gasoline-electric powertrains.

Even more alarmingly, since the election, Trump has appropriated the term "fake news," as a weapon to be deployed against his enemies.

And the claim that they are appropriating the term and rendering it harmless is simply naïve.

By the summer of 2011, Mr. Obama made his first attempt to appropriate the term.

"We called them bridge-and-tunnel," he said, appropriating the term Manhattan residents have long used to dismiss outsiders.

In his own thoroughly strange 1946 novel Life Comes to Seathorpe, Neil Bell appropriates the term "rare books" to designate members of a new, dissident literary canon.

I've chosen to appropriate the term and self-identify as a coconut because I believe it offers an opportunity for refusal.