slush funds

Definition of slush fundsnext
plural of slush fund

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Noun
  • By this decade, your body has started to naturally lose muscle mass, and putting on new muscle may be more difficult due to anabolic resistance, which blunts the muscle’s ability to respond to external stimuli like exercise and protein.
    Emma Loewe, Outside, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Word games, information sleuthing, instructional videos, and even just chatting with friends can provide positive stimuli.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Kansas and Missouri have spent the past 18 months trying to secure the team through sweeping stadium-funding incentives packages — which the Chiefs used last month to announce their intentions for a move to Kansas.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The country is largely focused on a self-sufficiency drive to build up its chipmaking capabilities, a push that’s included readying a new round of incentives of as much as $70 billion for the chip sector.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Trump has repeatedly touted Venezuela’s rich oil supply as among the motivations for the January 2 military assault on the country and the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro, who has since been charged with drug trafficking and weapons possession.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Though the videos did not reveal a motive, the federal investigation into Valente’s motivations will continue, the US attorney’s office said.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Some say his spurs are still jingling down the hallway, chasing after her.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Here, gravitational tides between the galaxies pull gas out of each other, forming the bridge and associated spurs.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In truth, there were many factors behind the fall of the Soviet Union — Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars program and other geopolitical provocations, the drop in oil prices, drastic leadership mistakes like the war in Afghanistan, a misguided alcohol policy, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev’s reforms.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Returning to the status quo ante would signal that Beijing seeks to relax cross-strait tensions and will escalate only in response to new provocations.
    STEPHEN WERTHEIM, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Slush funds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20funds. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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