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Recent Examples of emolument The Trump family’s involvement in foreign business deals became a major focus during Mr. Trump’s term, with critics ultimately suing and alleging that the family was illegally profiting from foreign payments — referred to as emoluments in the Constitution — while Mr. Trump was in office. Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024 The emoluments clause prohibits the president from accepting any gift, title or emolument from a foreign state or domestic officials without congressional approval. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2022 Now, however, some Democrats are second-guessing whether the impeachment investigation should have included charges related to campaign finance and an emoluments probe of whether Trump properties profit from foreign nationals. Billy House, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020 This is the third year the company has made such a donation, part of an effort to avoid violating the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution, which bars the president from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments. Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2020 See All Example Sentences for emolument
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Noun
  • The salary cap is projected to be $154.6 million next season with the luxury tax projected as $187.9 million, the first apron projected at $195.9 million and the second apron projected at $207.8 million.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • With a salary cap rising to $95.5 million for 2025-26, the Ducks enter the offseason with what CapWages estimates will be more than $39 million of cap space available for usage.
    Eric Stephens, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By contrast, tariffs would differentiate American industrialization from the British experience, shielding domestic labor from subsistence wages and securing workers opportunities for social-economic mobility.
    Made by History, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
  • That provides clues on whether businesses are looking to hire and potential wage inflation.
    Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025

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

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