All 3 Uses
appropriate
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- He'd appropriated the raisins from the kitchen while on KP duty, he explained to Ranous.†
Chpt 5. *
- It was Boots Thomas—appropriately—who got the unit moving: "Patrol, up the hill!†
Chpt 11. *
- She added: "It is appropriate that Rene will be interred very near to the Iwo Jima monument.†
Chpt 19.
Definitions:
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(1)
(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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(2)
(appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture) to take without asking -- often without right
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(3)
(appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds) to set aside for a particular use
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)