slush fund

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Recent Examples of slush fund These charges, Mayweather says, imply that the Pacquiao revenue pool was used as a slush fund to pay unrelated costs, like the Berto payout. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026 Three months later, Jackson pleaded guilty to misusing $750,000 in campaign funds — spending the money as a personal slush fund, and served 23 months in prison. Todd Feurer, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026 Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan almost continuously for the last 30 years, became mired in crisis – facing fallouts over a slush fund scandal, an inflation surge and a rightward political shift across the country. Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026 Crucially, the slush fund scandal led the LDP to dismantle its factional system, long considered the root of undue influence of money on politics but which for decades had structured intraparty competition over funds and appointments. Mireya Solís, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slush fund
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Noun
  • Hair follicle stimulation and density support are provided through PRP and mesotherapy, while graft preservation is supported through IceGraft technology to help maintain graft condition.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • In an era when many A-list veterans keep adding layers — orchestras, backing tracks, costume changes, guest appearances, enough visual stimulation to warrant warnings to fans with photosensitive epilepsy — Sting has gone the opposite direction.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • That anticlimax proved enduring motivation for son Clark, now the chairman of the Chiefs.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
  • Most organizations continue to approach performance through the lens of the individual, focusing on motivation or endurance, while overlooking the structural conditions that quietly determine how people function over time.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Renter Mandy Feng, who prefers to use a pseudonym for fear of being seen criticizing the authorities, said the stimulus the government is offering has failed to offset people’s anxiety over an uncertain economic outlook.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • Perhaps sensing this, the league trotted out a series of onstage stimuli between picks.
    Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • House members who occupy safe seats have fewer incentives to compromise or work across the aisle.
    Ashley Wu, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • Provincial incentives can be stacked with the federal rebate to a bonus tax credit rate of 45 percent — a significant lever in an era when every greenlight is being scrutinized.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • Lemon also has two child seduction charges pending against her in neighboring Marion County, FOX 59 reported.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • Lemon was expected to be sentenced Friday in Marion County on two additional child seduction charges tied to the same investigation.
    Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Spain’s Rif War, where future Spanish dictator Francisco Franco won his spurs, served as a crucible for the values and military tactics of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War where Franco treated his Republican enemy with the same humanity dealt out to Rif inhabitants.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • In a moment of foresight, though, Metro built a small spur off the B Line down Wilshire Boulevard that ended right at Waxman’s boundary.
    Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • The component parts include herself, a fashionable, high-ish brow, and maybe trashy auteur (Abel Ferrara, Olivier Assayas, Catherine Breillat, her own dad), a strong genre element, and dabs of very deliberate provocation.
    David Katz, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
  • Mamdani’s April 14 video—posted to social media on Tax Day and filmed outside Griffin’s Central Park South penthouse—was a deliberate provocation.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • The Nationalist government thought television an incitement to sedition.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • Trump officials and a large number of Republicans characterized the image as an incitement of violence against the President.
    Richard Hall, Time, 10 May 2026

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“Slush fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20fund. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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