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misappropriate

verb as in use wrongly; steal

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The Republican chairmen of the panels warned about “systematic attempts to exploit, degrade, and misappropriate our open system of science.”

However, no one is entitled to misappropriate the views of others to justify state violence— especially not the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

From Salon

Over the past three weeks, former employees and friends of Sam Bankman-Fried have testified that he orchestrated a scheme to misappropriate billions of dollars in customer money from his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, which collapsed last year.

“Facing difficult financial circumstances, Mr. Hynes decided to misappropriate venture money,” said Senior Deputy Dist.

Bourlakova has alleged that her then husband pursued a strategy to devalue and misappropriate the ownership of the yacht holding companies, among other assets and had in 2018 said that “a longstanding oral partnership” with Kazakov reduced the share of wealth that can be distributed to her.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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