slush funds

plural of slush fund

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Noun
  • How 40 Hz Sound Therapy Works The treatment is called GENUS, short for gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli.
    Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026
  • Chung recently received her first award from the National Institutes of Health for a research project to understand how genetically identical cells respond differently to stimuli, such as treatments or environmental cues.
    Rachel Martin, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
Noun
  • Only 25% of production houses supported by the FDC or tax incentives have returned for a second project, leaving 75% unable to build long-term capacity.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 11 July 2026
  • While the threshold sparked debate, the decree offers financial incentives for parties to merge by discounting registration fees for coalitions and alliances.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • One of the early motivations was reportedly to prevent Google from getting a monopoly over AI.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • With the salary cap inching, rather than leaping, upwards, those motivations have only become stronger.
    Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 9 July 2026
Noun
  • One exhibit brings together the then-future president’s buckskin jacket and pants, his rifle, Tiffany knife, his spurs, and his branding irons.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2026
  • But aside from gifting Zane with spurs, Beth’s more or less a spectator through all of the Jackson family drama.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • So, who was it from our universe that would be most susceptible to that kind of messaging, or who would find the seductions of the power offered by that the most compelling?
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But the seductions of ChatGPT are hard to resist, and Marsicano noted that the college has seen an increase in code violations due to AI.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The event didn’t come together, but his provocations got a lot of attention.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • Nevertheless, the movie’s influence and filmmaking acumen are undeniable, and any serious horror enthusiast needs to grapple with its provocations.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 2 July 2026
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“Slush funds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20funds. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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