mad money

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Recent Examples of mad money Against the backdrop of the mad money, the veteran quarterback looks like a major bargain for the Las Vegas Raiders. Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023 That was before Monday, when Voyager Digital, the crypto brokerage that Cuban partnered with last fall, filed Chapter 11, apparently costing some Mavs fans their mad money in the process. Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 July 2022 The untitled project follows a Swiss art dealer and Russian oligarch caught in a web of secrets, lies and mad money, telling the inside story of an international, billion-dollar game where power is the ultimate currency. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022 Ever-rising stock prices, fed by the Federal Reserve Board’s hedge-fund bailout and mad money printing approach to monetary policy, meant the only sucker’s game was not buying stocks. Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022 Others are hobbyists, trading a chunk of their retirement portfolios or some mad money. Emily Flitter, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mad money
Noun
  • My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
  • Having your full income as pocket money is not a good life lesson at all.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At Mexican weddings, everyone who dances with the bride or groom is expected to pin money on their outfit, a celebratory gesture that contributes to the newlyweds’ honeymoon and other wedding expenses.
    Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
  • At Mexican weddings, everyone who dances with the bride or groom is expected to pin money on their outfit, a celebratory gesture that contributes to the newlyweds’ honeymoon and other wedding expenses.
    Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • How many of these teams does baseball allow to revenue share without spending money?
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • That’s not an insignificant amount of spending money, and unfortunately, due to years of roster tinkering by the previous regime, the current group’s options for alternative funds were limited.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The Granger government should pursue the right safeguards to prevent its oil fund from becoming a petty cash reserve for the president.
    Raúl Gallegos, Foreign Affairs, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Yes, there’s a bit of petty cash filtering in here and there for their little projects.
    Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • One recent project developed navigation solutions for the West Bank, while another focused on connecting trauma survivors with healing resources.
    Hessie Jones, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • These rival entities, designed to drain their counterparts of resources and influence, would serve as platforms for grandstanding rather than substantive cooperation.
    Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024

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“Mad money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mad%20money. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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