Sentence examples for been appropriated from inspiring English sources

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been appropriated

verb

To make suitable; to suit.

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"Because the word has been appropriated by men".

Che Guevara's image has long been appropriated to sell products.

"No money has been appropriated for the poet laureate's position".

The journalist is also keenly aware of the way the expression has been appropriated.

(The names of Uranus's children, the Titans, already had been appropriated for Saturn's moons).

But this genuinely national holiday has long been appropriated by the Kremlin for ideological ends.

It's this aspect of his work that has been appropriated by several contemporary filmmakers.

Murray's image has been appropriated for T-shirts, paintings, internet memes, cartoons, and books.

Just as he has been appropriated, so he appropriated ideas from everyone else.

And though Congress approved the Green Jobs Act, no money for job training has been appropriated.

It's a rental contract for his own home, which had been appropriated by the state.

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