slush fund

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Recent Examples of slush fund The Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), originally established to revitalize our city, has long outlived its purpose, devolving instead into a slush fund that favors private interests over the needs of taxpayers. Audrey Fesik, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025 Unfortunately, politicians can take advantage of the resulting slush funds for projects that have nothing to do with fighting blight. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025 Republican opposition to the Toxic Exposure Fund largely centers around their claims that the pot of money, created after passage of the 2022 PACT Act, is a slush fund for the VA with little oversight. Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025 This $20 billion was moved out of the Treasury into a slush fund where there was no oversight of the spending. John Griggs, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slush fund
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush fund
Noun
  • That should matter to leaders, because real connection drives motivation, creativity, and well-being.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • But the vice president’s remarks also underscore the political motivations behind Saturday’s action.
    Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • The 2021 Biden stimulus bill provided additional financial incentives to the holdout states.
    The Editors, National Review, 5 June 2025
  • Consider stimulus like background noise, scent from air fresheners and perfumes, family members all calling the puppy at once etc.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • While geothermal energy loses out in the current package, some Republicans, including U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, have called for the power source’s tax incentives to remain.
    Justin Worland, Time, 13 June 2025
  • This structure leaves little incentive for buyers locked into contracts to make any moves until the contract ends.
    Greg Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Viewers eager for strategy and a touch of seduction will find everything waiting when Scandal lands back on Netflix on June 17.
    Tahar Rajab, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
  • Especially in the language, there’s a lot of seduction in the lyrics.
    Vita Dadoo, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • According to the National Wild Turkey Federation, around one percent of toms have multiple spurs.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 7 May 2025
  • Each of its legs had a 1 3/8-inch spur, plus another 5/8-inch spur beside the first one.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • When Napoleon insists on Antonin serving a dessert in the form of a pyramid — a bald-faced invocation of the war between France and England, and a provocation to the English ambassador, who is theoretically the guest of honor — Antonin duly wheels one into the dining room.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
  • The simulation was designed to create complex and hostile negotiating conditions, including U.S. provocations on nontrade issues, such as the status of Greenland and the sovereignty of Canada.
    Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • The temptation to check messages, see what the latest notification is, etc. could pull audience members away from the live speaker.
    Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • The Trump administration must resist the temptation to focus on showy public-facing policies, such as unilateral drone strikes, which would practically force Sheinbaum to reduce cooperation in defense of Mexican sovereignty.
    WILL FREEMAN, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025

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“Slush fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20fund. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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