kickbacks

noun

plural of kickback
1
as in reactions

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as in rebates

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as in bribes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kickbacks
  1. reactions
  2. rebates
  3. bribes
  4. backlashes
  5. discounts
  6. payoffs
  7. responses
  8. reductions
Noun
  • In modern cells, that chemistry is extraordinarily complex, orchestrating some 1 billion reactions per second.
    — Perri Thaler, Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Hawley’s Facebook post received more than 24,000 thumbs-up reactions of approval.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of reactions
Noun
  • Luis Esteves, director of the Irvine Great Park, outlined the new rebates OCPA offered this year, including a $1,000 rebate for home battery storage, up to $1,000 for home EV chargers and free home energy efficiency kits.
    — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
  • According to Shapiro's office, 522,434 rebates totaling more than $319 million were sent to Pennsylvanians who submitted a rebate application in 2024.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Definition of rebates
Noun
  • Text messages between Diamantis and his daughter suggest there may have been a more concrete plan to pay bribes than Roy has admitted.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Less than two decades later, the bond was tested by a scandal known as the XYZ Affair, in which France’s foreign minister, Talleyrand, demanded bribes from American envoys to Paris.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of bribes
Noun
  • Mulvaney was already at the center of national debate after a Bud Light promotion helped trigger one of the most damaging corporate backlashes in recent memory.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • And sometimes backlashes are built out of nothing.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Definition of backlashes
Noun
  • The legislation preserves legitimate promotional offers, including loyalty rewards, student discounts, and veteran discounts.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Check out the latest early Black Friday deals to snag even more discounts on home essentials and holiday gifts.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of discounts
Noun
  • According to an indictment, the pitchers accepted several thousand dollars in payoffs to help two gamblers from their native Dominican Republic win at least $460,000 on in-game prop bets on the speed and outcome of certain pitches.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • There was limited documentary evidence of Diamantis’ attempt to extort payoffs from Roy and CAP, the prosecutors said, and without her cooperation and testimony, conviction on those counts would have been difficult.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of payoffs
Noun
  • Robinson, 83, professor emeritus of modern architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, makes a habit of opening his doors to interested parties, so he’s accrued four decades’ worth of responses to this singular structure.
    — Web Behrens, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The amygdala is a structure deep in the brain that tends to be active when people have emotional responses to events (as well as in a wide variety of additional circumstances).
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of responses
Noun
  • These snow showers will also produce brief and localized reductions in visibility.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 14 Nov. 2026
  • Countries establish plans to reduce emissions, with the speed of reductions and ways to achieve them differing by country.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of reductions
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