embezzle
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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
Vows: After her ex-husband used her identity to embezzle money, she swore never to marry again.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2023
On Tuesday, he tweeted: "UAW slogan – 'Fighting for the right to embezzle money from auto workers!'"
From Reuters • Mar. 29, 2022
Peculate, pek′ū-lāt, v.t. to take for one's own use money or property entrusted to one's care: to embezzle: to steal.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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