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appropriation

Main Entry:	ap·pro·pri·a·tion [uh-proh-pree-ey-shuhn] /əˌproʊpriˈeɪʃən/ Show Spelled
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Main Entry:	appropriation
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Example Sentences

They would agree that copying isn't pejorative, and that appropriation isn't necessarily a violation.

The legislature will decide soon whether to keep the appropriation.

Sometimes quick musical referencing can lead to appropriation.

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They would agree that copying isn't pejorative, and that appropriation isn't necessarily a violation.

The legislature will decide soon whether to keep the appropriation.

Sometimes quick musical referencing can lead to appropriation.

The politics cut the money and the appropriation is small.

As if everyone else's ideas are fodder for your appropriation.

The appropriation of scientific teminology to tout snake oil.

Stricter controls have been imposed on the appropriation of arable land for urban development.

The appropriation of scientific imagery for use in one's personal language is fascinating.

It's the type of appropriation that can either straighten everyone out, or piss everyone off.

Costs were simply omitted-and eventually ballooned to well over twice the original appropriation.

These fleeting similarities come off as sonic tips of the hatrather than finger-wag-worthy appropriation.

However, that would not have addressed bond interest which is subject to a permanent appropriation.

She argued that there is no functional difference between a tax credit and a government appropriation.

Let us start with your appropriation of responsibility for the riots.

The matter of apportioning the appropriation decided upon yesterday among the various fields was the first business taken up.

The master stroke, of course, was the appropriation from the left.

Longfellow's appropriation of them for his poem of tender farewells at the.

Proposed cuts in an appropriation for teaching hospitals could result in thousands of fewer doctors being trained each year.

Artworks based on appropriation sometimes get ensnarled in copyright issues.

Fruit innovators also suffered from the kind of appropriation faced by today's originators of digitized music and film.

No appropriation has yet been made for this project, and there is nothing.

Yet the group remains privately owned: a bizarre appropriation of public resources that would cause an outcry in other countries.

Of course, authorizations are only as good as the level of appropriation they ultimately receive.

Wonder where they've been when all of the appropriation bills were drafted and voted into law.

Also with a large manufacturing base, comes the need of services to supplement the distribution and appropriation of such goods.

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