Be in and Take over

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Take over and be in are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take over" instead a verb phrase "Be in".

Take over verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.

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Be in and take over are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Be in" instead a verb "Take over".

In "Phony Felix", a very obvious Felix impersonator named Oscar kidnaps Felix and tries to take over his show just so he can be the cartoon star he had failed to be in the past.

Source: Western Animation / The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
Take Over the City: Commander Forrester advocates the creation of a "New Order" to "cure" the cities of crime, which really means that he'll be in control of everything.

Source: Film / Scanners II: The New Order
In theory they're all on the same side, but for most of the series it was undecided who would be in charge of the rest, and some of the losers still hope to take over.

Source: Gambit Pileup

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