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Example sentences for: usurped

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Later, Olympian gods usurped Gaia but the sanctuary retained its role.
The tabs found themselves usurped in this scandal-enriched world, and it showed in declining circulation.
However Ayyubid control was weak and power was usurped by their Turkish slaves, called mamelukes, who succeeded in founding a dynasty that lasted from 1251 to 1517.
While the other papers all call this the centerpiece of Clinton's China trip, the WP claims that Clinton's team thought the televised press conference with Jiang Zemin had usurped this role, and so were downplaying the Beijing speech.
Abandoned by what many still call the “damned French” (maudits français), they felt that they alone had earned the name of canadiens, and that their British conquerors usurped it.