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- noun The act or process of
reappropriating .
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Examples
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The Mexican doesn't have a problem with using illegal--reappropriation, cabrones!
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: "Illegals" and The "N-Word" Gustavo Arellano 2011
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Knowledge is always a creative reappropriation of what worked in one place into another, not a simple translation of a practice in one place to another.
Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: Are we satisfied with what we’ve got? 2009
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The literary ethos in this quasi-spatial sense, as marking out its own accustomed place of imaginative outlay and divestment, is perhaps the complement — but certainly the opposite — of anything taken up from the sociological work of Michel de Certeau and advanced as the route to critique and reappropriation within cultural studies.
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Introduced into Montefeltro heraldry by Federico's grandfather Antonio, the device commemorated the reappropriation of the Montefeltro territories after a long exile. 43 Cheles has also suggested that the emblem's proximity to the names of Cicero and Seneca accords with the philosophers 'moral fiber.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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But this is also where the trial begins, the promise of reappropriation, or return, or readequation: "the search for and restitution or the object".
Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009
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This becomes the essential question: is music [authorship] an exception, or is it the herald of the reappropriation by all crea-tors of their valorized labor?
If They Could Turn Back Time Roger Sutton 2007
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There is no ethical problem with fighting big media via the public reappropriation of their resources: they are exploitative and stand in opposition to the greater good.
Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. 2009
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This becomes the essential question: is music [authorship] an exception, or is it the herald of the reappropriation by all crea-tors of their valorized labor?
If They Could Turn Back Time Roger Sutton 2007
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A beautiful modern reappropriation of this dilemma is in Kubrick's 2001, when Dr. Heywood Floyd gives his talk at the briefing on 'clavius' concerning the monolith.
Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 4 of 6 2009
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But this is also where the trial begins, the promise of reappropriation, or return, or readequation: "the search for and restitution or the object".
enowning enowning 2009
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