Definition of "peculate" []

• To embezzle (funds) or engage in embezzlement. (verb-transitive)

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• "I actually carry a notebook and when someone provides an insight or suggestion I write it down and let it "peculate" to see if, how, and where it makes since and how to apply it if it is considered valuable and beneficial to the path I am walking."
• "The company has the financial heft to be an acquirer, and is nearly always mentioned as a potential buyer when analysts peculate about deals."
• "Inhabit the voices, pushing the choices, falling as you make those noises, poised, moist, peculate and mutilate just to sedate the rate at which I debate."