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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peculate.

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Examples

  • This plays nicely with having a new mayor and the positive attitude that peculates with any new administration's beginning.

    Paul Klein: Private Business Support for the Arts: Good or Bad for Artists? Paul Klein 2011

  • This plays nicely with having a new mayor and the positive attitude that peculates with any new administration's beginning.

    Paul Klein: Private Business Support for the Arts: Good or Bad for Artists? Paul Klein 2011

  • And it's heated with a simple black garden hose and then the water peculates down and waters our edible landscaping.

    CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008 2008

  • The lack of flexibility often peculates down or is it up the corporate ladder often resulting in small but important local reactions becoming impossible or at best too slow.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • What sort of a world is it, I ask you, in which time peculates the gold from hair and the crimson from all lips, and the north wind carries away the glow and glory and contentment of October, and a driveling old magician steals a lovely girl?

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • The hazard posed is compounded by this dumping of toxic chemical waste on productive agricultural land, which peculates into the groundwater sources of water wells with villagers reporting a rash of skin diseases and respiratory problems.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The hazard posed is compounded by this dumping of toxic chemical waste on productive agricultural land, which peculates into the groundwater sources of water wells with villagers reporting a rash of skin diseases and respiratory problems.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

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