peculating

verb

present participle of peculate
as in embezzling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peculating
  1. embezzling
  2. usurping
  3. misusing
  4. appropriating
  5. misappropriating
  6. seizing
  7. preempting
  8. stealing
Verb
  • Lum is charged with embezzling more than $600,000 from the institution.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 14 July 2026
  • But in the end, he was convicted of embezzling around $12 million and executed in 2009.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of embezzling
Verb
  • Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The opposition’s narrative that Hollywood is usurping home rule is entirely backward.
    — Keith Poliakoff, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2026
Definition of usurping
Verb
  • Several more law enforcement officers have been arrested and charged with misusing license plate reader systems this week, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and local officials.
    — Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 9 July 2026
  • On March 30, a Paris court convicts Le Pen and other National Rally officials of misusing European Parliament funds, sentences her to prison and bars her from seeking public office for five years with immediate effect.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
Definition of misusing
Verb
  • On the night Republicans approved the legislation in the Senate, Graham accused Democrats of obstructing the normal bipartisan process for appropriating federal money.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 12 July 2026
  • Instead, Angwin claims that Grammarly infringed the privacy and publicity rights of her and many other authors by appropriating their names and identities for commercial purposes without consent.
    — Zoey Forbes, The Dial, 7 July 2026
Definition of appropriating
Verb
  • Apple has sued OpenAI and two of its former employees, accusing the company of misappropriating confidential information and trade secrets to accelerate its consumer hardware ambitions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
  • The 48-year-old daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte is accused of corruption, bribery, misappropriating millions in government funds and threatening to have the current president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, assassinated.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 9 July 2026
Definition of misappropriating
Verb
  • The aforementioned Löw and Scaloni worked as assistants before seizing the top jobs with their national teams, others – such as Didier Deschamps – have developed that know-how over multiple tournaments before striking gold.
    — Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Maduro disrupted her appearances by seizing sound systems or shutting down electricity.
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of seizing
Verb
  • But there are several downsides for players in preempting an MLB lockout by going on strike.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 July 2026
  • Congress this week released a bipartisan framework that would establish the first broad federal approach to AI regulation while temporarily preempting many state laws.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 June 2026
Definition of preempting
Verb
  • Hoffman introduced a slide step to speed up his motion to the plate, but even that wasn’t enough to stop the Padres from stealing twice against him earlier this month.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • The former 9-time AL base-stealing champ and 9-time gold glover resides in his boyhood home of Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of stealing
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