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appropriate

[uh-proh-pree-it, uh-proh-pree-eyt] / əˈproʊ pri ɪt, əˈproʊ priˌeɪt /






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“We continue to engage in careful communication with market participants with a high sense of urgency, and our primary duty is to maintain appropriate debt management policies while sustaining this dialogue,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

"Once we determine the appropriate charges, the case will be prosecuted in the most objective and impartial means possible" through a grand jury, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said Monday.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Kaiser’s expert argued that the physician assistant did an appropriate exam and that his low suspicion of breast cancer was reasonable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Anyone who came was welcome to receive an amount appropriate to the size of their household, but the adult representative first had to attend a half-hour seminar covering cooking and money-saving tips.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Nutsawoo,” she said finally, “does not own any appropriate luggage.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The recently enacted budget appropriates money for detention facilities, but it doesn’t require children to be detained.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025

We want to ensure that funding is available, that Congress appropriates the right amount, and that states can operate their programs as needed to provide WIC services.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024

Reed included the language in a dedicated subsection of the Senate report accompanying the bill, which appropriates the money that funds the activities of the State Department among other priorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

On the other hand, it allocates — or appropriates — money to carry out those policies.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

He finds his materials already created, and he merely appropriates them, and adapts them to his own uses by labour, exactly as he does with the soil that in his hands becomes fruitful fields.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

In response to ProPublica questions, Loui said that money appropriated by Inouye made up “a minority” of Navatek’s revenue.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

To be sure, the president and the executive branch are charged with lawfully implementing congressional directives about the dispersal of appropriated funds.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

A determination of disaster came at the end of that year, he said, and Congress appropriated funds in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Every dollar appropriated, he added, would be used to build the "lethality" of US military forces and "reinforce peace through strength".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

“They appropriated our telegrams, tapped our telephones, listened outside our windows and transoms....Even if we win, we who have been here will never remember it with anything but a shudder.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Seventeen years ago, Stockett published “The Help,” and some objected to her, as a white woman, appropriating Black speech patterns and cultural themes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

To Palantir’s old guard, the FDE remains as deeply misunderstood as ever, despite its newfound fame — a role that rivals are culturally appropriating while ignoring the often grueling engineering process it entails.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026

The memo concluded that Congress still needs to pass “express language appropriating funds for back pay for furloughed employees, or such payments cannot be made.”

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2025

This is not the first time that global brands have been accused to appropriating Indian traditional products without crediting their roots.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025

Ofelia took to appropriating Celia’s dresses and shoes.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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