embezzle

Example Sentences

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During the appeal trial, she denied that the RN had any system to embezzle European Parliament funds and has said her party acted in "complete good faith".

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

Some plots intended to embezzle funds and defraud unions and employee benefit plans, officials say.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2023

Manuel Chang, the former minister, is suspected of signing off on about $2 billion worth of loans concealed from public view and partaking in a scheme to embezzle hundreds of millions of dollars.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2023

On Tuesday, he tweeted: "UAW slogan – 'Fighting for the right to embezzle money from auto workers!'"

From Reuters • Mar. 29, 2022

By letter, persons have been introduced into circles where they had no footing, posts for whose responsibilities they were utterly unfit, and trusts whose funds they showed more faculty to embezzle than apply.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various