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Recent Examples of boodle There are more critical elections and bigger prizes on which that boodle is better spent. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023 Big Labor’s coffers, where the boodle has been put to use for preferred Democrat candidates and liberal referenda. Jack Fowler, National Review, 12 July 2022 To the extent that the effects are felt on those individuals’ bank accounts, these actors can typically find ways to navigate around the harshest of punishments and keep the boodle flowing. Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2021 His boodle took him to a pole barn on the edges of town, where his brother Ray was having a wedding reception. John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020 Laura Marston, a 38-year-old Type 1 diabetic, does not want to see the ADA get a dime of bailout boodle. Audrey Farley, The New Republic, 14 May 2020 But instead of plopping his funds in Manhattan high-rises or Miami beach-fronts, Kolomoisky’s network tried a different tack, opting to stuff his boodle in metallurgy plants across the Rust Belt, and buildings in downtown Cleveland. Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2019 Some of the boodle is going to people who are barely farmers at all. BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019 But if the politics of 2021 is to achieve anything close to what most Americans require, the path cannot be paved with the boodle and the influence of the wealthy. Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boodle
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
  • That can be done in part by strengthening the security dimension of increasingly important groupings (the Quad or the trilateral relationship with Japan and Korea).
    Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • So integral to the clubs’ fortunes is Champions League participation that their remaining Premier League games have widely been deemed as irrelevancies.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Galperin is Argentina’s richest person with an $8.7 billion fortune by Forbes’ estimate.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • She was infamously shown stuffing $1,000 in cash bribes into her bra in a photo that was released by the feds.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Chan, whose job was put in jeopardy by the merger, was accused of arranging a $600,000 bribe to then-Councilmember Jose Huizar in exchange for Huizar’s work opposing the merger.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the footage, the man, identified as Teodoro Dominguez-Rodriguez, is led by a group of plainclothes men who refused to show ID or a warrant to his attorneys.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The Athletic spots a group of three who are not wearing club colours.
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The least expensive ticket bundle will be Basic, which will include a seat assignment given at check in and the final position in boarding.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The Switch 2 costs $449.99 or $499.99 in a bundle with Mario Kart World included.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The project was pressed in a run of 15,000 copies, one of the largest batches among the exclusives.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That means pharmacies and facilities that sell batches of the medication could face FDA enforcement.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Learning that medical options for managing the condition are limited to hormonal drugs and surgery just piles onto the disappointment.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That didn’t bother Robinson, who is an hobbyist diver and had already done a dive visit to the site before acquiring the sunken pile of rusty iron.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Brad Pitt is zooming around in a race car, a new karate kid makes his debut (with help from the old one), a bunch of rampaging dinosaurs return, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are acting freaky once more.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Williams, who owned a 2.12 ERA in four career starts against the Twins, struggled to throw strikes against a patient Twins bunch.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Boodle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boodle. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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