Thesaurus results for PECULATE

peculate

verb

Definition of peculate

as in to usurp

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Colby opened camp on the first string but has been usurped the past week by veteran Rob Jones, whose violent streak showed up well in Tuesday’s action against the Titans.

— Cam Inman, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
His story is one rife with terror, pain and a sweltering rage that has usurped everything around him.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of usurp

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Before the jazz debacle, Ludlow was best known as a former City Council member who pleaded guilty in 2006 to federal charges of conspiring to embezzle union funds for campaign costs.

— David K. Li, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
Matthew Robinson was sued by his brother and a co-founder of the company, claiming $100,000 was embezzled over two years, according to a 2014 lawsuit.

— Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of embezzle

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Messi had a shot saved at the beginning of the second half, but Palacios then sparked a move from one side of the pitch to the other as Nashville restored its lead in the 49th minute and seized control of the game.

— Dean Jones, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Biggs, 67, has seized on the refusal, repeatedly challenging Hobbs to debate and making her absence itself part of his campaign message.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of seize

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The lawsuit argued that the new rules incorrectly preempt states’ powers to regulate how the interest generated by mortgage escrow accounts is handled.

— P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
One source of opposition concerned whether the PCSA would preempt state laws that prohibit transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of preempt

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In a world saturated with information, where every image is already endlessly recycled and re-appropriated, attention itself becomes a political act.

— Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Congress appropriated $257 million in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act for Kennedy Center repairs and renovations.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of appropriate

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The maker of the Taser recently phased out its drive-stun feature, a similar pain compliance tool that had been misused by some officers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Later in the month, a 17-year veteran of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office was fired and arrested for misusing Flock license plate data, which was identified during an internal probe.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of misuse

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What shouldn’t happen is for the federal government to arrogate to itself nationalization powers over what fans are so passionate about.

— John Tamny, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
But all of those ideas for spending or tax rebates, again, all of those are congressional authority that the president is arrogating to himself—something else that would have startled the founders of the country all those 250 years ago.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025

Definition of arrogate

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Hana reported that plainclothes agents confiscated phones and electronic equipment and that Seyedabdollahi was subsequently held in solitary confinement and at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence detention facility in Isfahan.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
And confiscating them would be legally and diplomatically more complicated than simply freezing them.

— Magdalena Del Valle, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of confiscate

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