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Recent Examples of slush fund
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.
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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
House votes to end government shutdown: A last-minute 'slush fund' snag and 4 other key shutdown-ending moments
When will flights return to normal?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
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
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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
House votes to end government shutdown: A last-minute 'slush fund' snag and 4 other key shutdown-ending moments
When will flights return to normal?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush fund
Noun
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What sounds like a miracle is the effects of a deep brain stimulation procedure Echemendia underwent at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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Together, Venus and Pluto create a blend of seductive charm, substance and intellectual stimulation.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But much of the talk centered on health and motivation.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
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Others contain hidden structures of motivation.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
Noun
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Fiscal stimulus helped to buoy spending in the first quarter.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 May 2026
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Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes, and the existential problems that war presents often act as a stimulus to innovation.—
David Szondy
May 02,
New Atlas,
2 May 2026
Noun
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Grace Backian, director of the Northern Philippines Root Crops Research and Training Center, said that’s largely because there’s no financial incentive for farmers to plant more.—
Stephanie Yang,
CNN Money,
3 May 2026
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Most states have some sort of incentive in place to benefit EV buyers, including tax credits or rebates, or utility rate reductions, according to a 2023 report from the National Conference of State Legislators, a bipartisan nonprofit group for state legislators and their staff.—
Sarah Agostino,
CNBC,
3 May 2026
Noun
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Onscreen, the seduction was working.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The seduction was really his personality and his focus on the children.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In past years, our dreams of May are too often shunted from a mainline to a spur.—
Jerry Shnay,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
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Last offseason, Garcia had a minor procedure to remove an elbow spur in his right elbow.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The problem nobody wanted to name Before the announcements, before Jensen’s entrance to stadium-level applause, McDermott opened Day 1 with a provocation.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed German artist prominent in the Neo-Expressionalist movement who had a penchant for provocation and was known for painting images upside down, has died.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
Noun
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By conflating antiauthoritarian arguments with incitement, conservatives are making the same error but following it to the opposite conclusion.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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This is the most gaping vacancy of all—Trump gestures toward two American incitements, one historic, one extremely recent.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Slush fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20fund. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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