Arrogated is an English word with synonyms like assumed or taken. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Arrogated meaning
simple past and past participle of arrogate
Using Arrogated
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of arrogate
- Useful related words include: assumed, taken.
- In the example corpus, arrogated often appears in combinations such as: arrogated to.
Context around Arrogated
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Arrogated
- In this selection, "arrogated" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aristocracy, casey, parties and power stand out and add context to how "arrogated" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and casey arrogated that authority and elders who arrogated to themselves. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "arrogated" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with arrogated
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. (6 words)
On the global stage, Trump has arrogated to himself the desire, though not the actual ability, to exert control as well. (21 words)
I will contest because I believe in parliamentary democracy… Why have these parties arrogated this power to decide who should contest or who shouldn’t? (25 words)
Now under this circumstance, as Okorocha cruises to the end of his final tenure, he erroneously believes that he has the arrogated- power to hoist on the people of Imo State whosoever he chooses to succeed him hook, line and sinker. (41 words)
The old-line PNC elites’ only hope is that the Committee of Elders – who arrogated to themselves the power to judge whether Vanessa Kissoon’s allegations of sexual harassment by Norton – will call the latter out. (36 words)
Edmund Wilson argues that statistically "the logic of the 'Modest proposal' can be compared with defense of crime (arrogated to Marx) in which he argues that crime takes care of the superfluous population". (33 words)
I will contest because I believe in parliamentary democracy… Why have these parties arrogated this power to decide who should contest or who shouldn’t? (25 words)
Example sentences (7)
In his judicial revolution of the 1990s, Aharon Barak, the father of Israel’s judicial aristocracy, arrogated to the court the power to abrogate duly promulgated Knesset laws, with no legal authority.
Roe and Casey arrogated that authority.
The old-line PNC elites’ only hope is that the Committee of Elders – who arrogated to themselves the power to judge whether Vanessa Kissoon’s allegations of sexual harassment by Norton – will call the latter out.
I will contest because I believe in parliamentary democracy… Why have these parties arrogated this power to decide who should contest or who shouldn’t?
On the global stage, Trump has arrogated to himself the desire, though not the actual ability, to exert control as well.
Now under this circumstance, as Okorocha cruises to the end of his final tenure, he erroneously believes that he has the arrogated- power to hoist on the people of Imo State whosoever he chooses to succeed him hook, line and sinker.
Edmund Wilson argues that statistically "the logic of the 'Modest proposal' can be compared with defense of crime (arrogated to Marx) in which he argues that crime takes care of the superfluous population".
Common combinations with arrogated
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- arrogated to 4×