arrogate

“Shortly thereafter, John embarked on a series of steps to arrogate to himself complete control over Mr. Angelos’ assets.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

They are truly generative, an apt term for a novel that queries a selfish inventor, his damaged creature and science’s threat to arrogate creation to itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2018

Judge Jackson said the action was “a stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself” that the law did not support.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2012

Unfortunately, they arrogate to themselves the same importance at conventions, upstaging the assembled party.

From Time Magazine Archive

They arrogate to themselves now a right of paying domiciliary visits without search-warrants, of forcing open a person's door whensoever the outrage may suit their whim.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

The rapid team collapse was head-spinning news not only in Australia but also among worldwide fans of cricket, a sport that arrogates to itself a particular moral sanctimony.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

What is it that arrogates that authority to someone else?

From Time Magazine Archive

Where the Olympic Charter goes astray is on the very next page, on which the IOC arrogates for itself Supreme Authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

As such, it has been subject to attack time immemorial from every agency that fears new truth, or that arrogates to itself the exclusive possession of particular areas of truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

There exists a group, international in composition, which, above all other contemporary bodies, arrogates to itself the style of modernity.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

Today, we have a priest who has disbanded the pastoral council and arrogated governance to himself and his staff.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

To Covington & Burling, the answer was clear: it lay with Congress, and, if Trump arrogated that power to himself, the firm was prepared to take on a lawsuit pro bono.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018

He had arrogated to himself the privilege to call, and to assume the president would take his call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2018

But journalists have arrogated it to themselves in disproportionate numbers.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2018

It is apparent that Moses had a direct interest in the destruction of these men, who wished to share the power he had arrogated to himself.

From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh

He’s also arrogating actual facts to himself, which makes this triply scary.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

So, of course, it’s not just that he’s arrogating the piggy bank to himself.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

All this, when Augustine's position is remembered, will be seen to show how far Rome then was from arrogating to herself any strange supremacy such as later days have brought.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton

The Emperor, offended at the chamber's arrogating to itself an authority over his ministers, forbade them to stir.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

He knew, with shame, how her father had been a man without arrogating any authority.

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence