usurp
Example Sentences
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This appears to be a fraud attempt to usurp your authority as CEO.
The novel echoes thinkers like Hannah Arendt in pointing out how true-believing functionaries, the butt of ridicule in “normal” times, can help subsume all reason and decency to usurp a compliant and too-comfortable ruling class.
"It would mean the court usurping and interfering with the decision of a locally elected chamber," the barrister added.
From BBC
Oh please, I said, he has zero history of fearing to usurp judicial authority.
Over the decades, technology in the studio has made it possible for the vocally challenged to usurp craftsmanship and talent.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
