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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reappropriate .
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Examples
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Freezing discretionary spending, the spending that Congress reappropriates every year, at current levels will similarly yield only very small budgetary savings.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending 2010
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Benjamin Francis Leftwich bravely reappropriates the term, employing his imagination as a defence against the risk of sinking into platitudes.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – review 2011
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Benjamin Francis Leftwich bravely reappropriates the term, employing his imagination as a defence against the risk of sinking into platitudes.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – review 2011
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To his credit, Blomkamp (who expanded the movie from his 2005 short “Alive in Joburg”) reappropriates these old ideas to make something new and fresh.
The Anatomy of “District 9″ - Eric’s review » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Starting at “birth”, and possibly even prior to it, being-thrown reappropriates itself or rather ex-appropriates itself in forms which are not yet those of the subject or the project.
Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009
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Starting at “birth”, and possibly even prior to it, being-thrown reappropriates itself or rather ex-appropriates itself in forms which are not yet those of the subject or the project.
enowning enowning 2009
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Intan Paramaditha: Through its cinematic language, Pasir Berbisik explores the dimensions of female gaze and female voyeurism as well as reappropriates the Oedipal narrative structure.
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Nietzsche in order to show how inescapable the self-inverting scheme is whereby no matter how violent the reminder to the philosopher of the limits placed on him by his language, philosophy always reappropriates this critique (which consists in a version of the quintessential philosophical thesis) (177).
Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005
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Wentworth reappropriates the phraseology of Christ's miracles to emphasize His dreadful power rather than to emphasize His mercy.
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Freezing discretionary spending, the spending that Congress reappropriates every year, at current levels will similarly yield only very small budgetary savings.
Chicago Reader 2010
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