Appropriate
Appropriate verb - To take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right.
Construct and appropriate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Construct" instead a verb "Appropriate".
Construct
Construct verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
Appropriate and construct are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Appropriate" instead a verb "Construct".
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- This prompts the ship's AI to pipe up with the quotation, and the construct immediately recognizes and acknowledges Mark 5:9 as an appropriate metaphor for its state of existence.
Source: Stock Quotes - Especially appropriate because the Vogon Constructor Fleet doesn't construct anything—its job is to facilitate hyperspace express routes by blowing up planets that happen to be in the way.
Source: Deconstructor Fleet
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