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reappropriate

(ˌriːəˈprəʊprɪˌeɪt)
vb (tr)
formal to appropriate something again
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Translations
se réapproprier
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Smh [shaking my head] the whole world doesn't change its perception of a word because some edgelords on Twitter decided (to) reappropriate a word."
We must reappropriate what in our history inspires us.
It's part of the skateboarding graphic culture to reappropriate. I can't hate.
The band, which mostly has Asian-American members, said that it wanted to "reappropriate" the meaning of the word and chose the name to take back the racial epithet. The Slants filed a lawsuit after their first attempt to register their band name in 2011 was rejected.
'Money is not a problem, we already have enough and can reappropriate from other sources to fulfill the commitments.'
Here, spatial identification takes place outside, "beyond the boundaries of a house," and challenges the ruling classes' physical and ideological dominance (54).The identities shaped by the yard as opposed to the traditional singular house exemplify how postcolonial Caribbean people reappropriate space from its colonial configurations.
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With the recent announcement of the next Kanye West album, expect to see brands trip over each other to reappropriate Ye's heat for commercial use.
This edited volume presents 13 essays that reflect on how the influence of Vatican II's Gaudium et spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, allowed the Latin American church to interpret and reappropriate, for the last 50 years, a theology that emerges from the context, experiences, knowledge, feelings, and hopes of the population of this specific region; it pays special attention to the voice and dreams of the most vulnerable.
He makes it clear that any broad engagement with Ubuntu as a philosophy about our shared humanity "in its articulation as first and foremost a political act, cannot but amount to or imply a confrontation with the measures and mechanisms that historically excluded it as a sign of primitiveness, only to reappropriate it later as a messianic signifier of our shared humanity" (p 15).
They will help us reclaim the narrative and reappropriate the truth."
She acts as a visual hunter-gatherer, seeking images from luxury culture to collect, reappropriate and reuse the imagery she finds beautiful.