Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peculated
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Boyd pitcher Colton Patton took over on the mound in the ninth inning, slamming the door and securing the title.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 June 2026 -
After spending 11 months gathering evidence, interviewing two dozen tearful girls and their parents, then being stonewalled by state prosecutors and attacked in the media, they were then ostracized by federal prosecutors, who took over the case in early 2007.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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Shia elites, like their Sunni counterparts, have embezzled billions and enriched their allies.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
26 May 2026
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The lawsuit brought against FanDuel by the former Jacksonville Jaguars executive who embezzled more than $20 million from the team is headed out of court.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
12 May 2026
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Agency chair says data has been misused Early indications of the EEOC's plan to stop gathering data came a year ago.—
Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
1 June 2026
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The real goal is to identify the actual point of compromise, such as where the data is being misused, who the rogue actor is, which account is the victim, which account is the mule and where the money is really going.—
Muhammad Azeem,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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One of the designs that Shein allegedly appropriated was a shirt from INAC’s Red Day Dress collection, which is designed to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit People.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
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Moreover, such a reassessment is supposed to consider these impacts in a larger environment of contemporary communication in order to trace instances of remediation too, namely, to reveal how characteristics of old media are replaced or appropriated and incorporated.—
Carmen Daniela Maier,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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The Weird and Wild column had to be preempted by other programming these last couple of weeks.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Frost noted that the show was preempted for six out of eight weeks of airing as the network turned its attention to the Gulf War.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
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Though its glam environs were eventually usurped by Hawaii’s many newer luxury resorts, an extensive renovation in 2008 gave the Mauna Kea an update without sacrificing its throwback charm.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 May 2026
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After opting against pursuing a deal for Mike Maignan last summer, Chelsea have stuck with Robert Sanchez as No 1 — bar a brief spell where Filip Jorgensen usurped him in March.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The court also discovered that Shi misappropriated funds amounting to about $22 million for personal use for more than three months without repayment between 2012 and 2022, among other findings, the report added.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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The money was instead misappropriated for her own benefit, with significant sums of the fraud redirected to gambling expenses.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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New York followed with a $75 billion price tag attached.—
Yaël Ossowski,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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One key data source was the radiosonde—a box of instruments attached to weather balloons that measures temperature, pressure and other parameters.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
29 May 2026
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“Peculated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculated. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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