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SAFE said businesses' purchases of options should be based on a real need and backed by trade in goods or investments, echoing restrictions on the trade of yuan forwards aimed at preventing people from peculating on the yuan's widely expected appreciation.

China Opens More Options for Yuan 2011

But this time peculating in my head is thoughts of RPG, the paper based kind.

The RPG evolution of Jason 2009

One bunch of peculating half wits congratulating another then?

OPEN THREAD 2009

I knew it was treated like another candidate, from how it was peculating through the rounds.

Interpreting the Hugo Votes, or: Hugo Thunderdome! | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

It is due to Mr Tigg to say that he had really risen with his opportunities; and, peculating on a grander scale, he had become a grander man altogether.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

He did not have to class himself with the cheating captains he had heard about, with the peculating officers he had known.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

Louisiana, and ignorant of all connections except a peculating guardian.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Do we not all know that rogue of a clown with his peculating fingers, who brazens out of every scrape, and who conquers the world by good humour and ready wit?

Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

So you had much better marry me, my dear, and say good-bye to your peculating friends.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

And, whatever some Serbs may tell you, it is undeniable that honesty has made important strides in the public life of that kingdom, even without having added to the Statute Book those rigorous proposals of the newly-formed Peasants 'party, one of which would punish a peculating official with death.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917