Thesaurus results for ARROGATE

arrogate

verb

ˈer-ə-ˌgāt

as in to seize

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right arrogated the corner office without obtaining prior approval

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Recent Examples of arrogate Disney arrogates those traits, skills, and experiences, essentially using modern female ideals to challenge traditional masculine ideals. —

Armond White, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024 Back before the federal government arrogated to itself an outsize role as financier of college education, the Wayne States of the world were where ambitious people who didn’t have a lot of money, who wanted to save money on college, or both, got their degrees. —

John Tamny, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024 In every period, the essence of politics has been that a tin-pot tsar who wants to arrogate to himself the right to personal, unaccountable power needs to intimidate the honest people who are not afraid of him. —

Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 The Bibi Files uses a mix of talking-head history and in-the-room vérité to paint its picture of a leader who has arrogated power for corrupt and self-interested reasons — the allegations are of some $250,000 in gifts received in exchange for political favors — to his country’s detriment. —

Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Instead of deferring to the people’s representatives, as the Founders intended, today originalists on the Supreme Court have arrogated power to themselves. —

Saul Cornell / Made By History, TIME, 26 July 2024 The crescendo to this assault on expertise landed in June, when the majority’s Chevron decision arrogated to the courts regulatory calls that have been made by civil servant scientists, physicians and lawyers for the last 40 years. —

The Editors, Scientific American, 10 July 2024 The institution of the caliphate, now arrogated to themselves by the Umayyads, was thus transformed into arbitrary hereditary rule. —

Mohammed Ayoob, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2016 So why is his agency now arrogating to itself vast new regulatory power? —

The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023

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The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit seized 148 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, according to a statement the sheriff's office posted to Facebook.

— Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
Panama has rejected his demand that the United States seize the Panama Canal.

— Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025