slush fund

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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. 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 Nixon was generally bad on television, except for a live speech in 1952, given from a studio designed to look like an ordinary living room, that addressed allegations about a campaign slush fund. Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 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 See All Example Sentences for slush fund
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Noun
  • The solution, therefore, is to reduce stimulation to allow dopamine levels to recover.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Beyond movement, the system uniquely uses sensory stimulation to reconnect Patterson with his physical self, aiming to restore the sensation of touch in his hands for the first time in 10 years.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • But much of the talk centered on health and motivation.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
  • Others contain hidden structures of motivation.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Higher-income households cut back more on their gas consumption four years ago than in March, while poorer households likely benefited more from government stimulus programs in 2022.
    Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Heightened uncertainty impacts the labor market with a lag, and the fiscal stimulus from higher refunds will eventually wane, particularly as gas prices remain elevated.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • The 12-team College Football Playoff has already created incentives for easier schedules.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
  • Most companies haven’t yet adjusted its employee metrics and incentives to fit with how AI is changing work, Microsoft said in its report, which surveyed 20,000 workers using AI across 10 countries.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • Onscreen, the seduction was working.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The seduction was really his personality and his focus on the children.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 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
  • In the end, Beard’s interpretation of the Constitution did not prevail—his evidence was not altogether persuasive—but his provocation helped usher in an era of constitutional renewal in the United States.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
  • What proved most arresting, however, was not the overt provocation of the work, but its manipulation of duration and attention.
    Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 13 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 14 May. 2026.

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