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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
embezzle .
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Examples
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Just because a PTA treasurer -- let alone the spouse of the treasurer -- embezzles money, doesn't mean we disband the PTA.
Muslim Moms group shouldn't give up washingtonpost.com editors 2010
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Blankenship is a criminal, just as culpable for his flagrant disregard for the welfare of the citizens as the Mafioso who embezzles money from construction projects.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship’s Record Of Profits Over Safety: ‘Coal Pays The Bills’ 2010
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It embezzles fractions of pennies a time from voters to feed the pork machine.
Against MRV, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Sure, the bank teller who embezzles a few thousand will be punished.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment 2010
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The tale of a bank teller who embezzles money to escape from sweet but boring domesticity, "From Morning to Midnight" places its newly dissolute hero in wildly stylized sets that create a world unlike any other.
High-Altitude Viewing Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Sure, the bank teller who embezzles a few thousand will be punished.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment 2010
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This bill to stop con artist like Tim Eyman who claim they're helping out the public but in the end just embezzles the money from special interests to line his own pockets.
Sound Politics: Why the initiative process needs to be protected 2007
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Consider an accountant who embezzles $100K from his employer, and a prosecutor or detective who deliberately conceals strongly exculpatory evidence that results in an innocent person being incarcerated for tenyears.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Aren’t Bad Prosecutors Held Accountable? 2009
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The murderer who murders; the rapist who rapes; the embezzler who embezzles should feel some level of guilt.
White Privilege, White Progressives and the Audacity of Obama's Definition of Hope 2008
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Just a story about a woman named Marian who embezzles some money from her boss in order to live happily ever after with her penniless lover - what was so "psycho" about that?
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