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• n  one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another

• Mousavi had reportedly detested Khamenei, considering him a usurper Khamenei was not an ayatullah when he succeeded Khomeini.
• While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement .
• Defeating an army of thousands, Zheng He captures the usurper to the Sumatran throne and sends him to China, where he is executed.

• supplanter

News & Articles

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• Egypt's Brotherhood won't work with 'usurper' government
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will not work with "the usurper authorities", a member of its executive board said on Thursday, rejecting feelers from the newly sworn-in head of state after the military removed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi from power. "We reject participation in any work with the usurper authorities," Sheikh Abdel Rahman al-Barr said in a statement published on ...
  July 4, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Our experts' predictions for all of the UFC 162 fights
  HUNT: I have to hand it to Weidman and the UFC. I can’t remember the last time a virtually unknown fighter stirred up this much hype as the usurper to the Silva dynasty. I feel like I’m standing alone on a platform where the train has long left the station. Is Weidman the one?
  July 3, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Ismail Haniyeh in Turkish Daily News (subscription)
  We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem,Haniyeh said.
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Jerusalem Post
  Addressing a press conference, Ahmadinejad said: "We are after positive interaction with the whole world, excluding a country that we don't recognize (Israel). We won't talk to the Zionist regime because it is a usurper and an illegitimate entity....
• Adam Gadahn in CNN International
  Gadahn says his grandfather was a "Zionist" and "a zealous supporter of the usurper entity, and a prominent member of a number of Zionist hate organizations."