appropriation

Copy-paste culture is so ubiquitous now that appropriation remains relevant only to those who have piles of money invested in appropriation artists.

We can trace appropriation precedents back to Warhol, and Prince as an early adopter, but who cares?

To try and rewrite the history of nerd/tech culture like this is a form of cultural appropriation.

In the full blown Marxist world view any appropriation of surplus value is essentially 'wage theft'.

Congress increased the National Science Foundation (NSF) appropriation for 1959 to $134 million, almost $100 million higher than the year before.

The idiotic prior appropriation system is a matter of state law and takings doctrine are a matter of federal constitutional law.

First, there's a long history of name appropriation about which I'm quite certain you've never raised any concerns.

But I'm sick of the English language speaking of wealth appropriation as if it generated actual value.

Between white America's appropriation of black American pop culture and the rise of yuppie hipsterdom, this applies just as much to the U.

Though, what's even more common is cultural appropriation of material goods.

Water rights in the west are governed by prior appropriation.

I predict a nerdy music video soon, and a pop video appropriation soon after.

The "sharing economy" is an appropriation of left-wing rhetoric by the right.

"Mobile deep linking" is the phrase that belongs in quotation marks, as it is a new and confusing appropriation of the phrase "deep link" to extend beyond the web into native (non-web) mobile apps.

This is one of the few times it's actually appropriate and non-insane to use the phrase "cultural appropriation": "Using something from some other group's culture in a way that makes life for members of that other culture more difficult." Is it copied from American culture?