slush funds

plural of slush fund

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Noun
  • The edit intercuts old film reels, both archival B-roll and seeming home movies, to hint at how all these new stimuli jog Brooke’s memory.
    Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than explaining behavior solely in terms of observable stimuli and responses, cognitive psychologists investigated ways in which individuals acquire, organize, store, and use information.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Federal production incentives, layered on top of state programs like California’s AB/SB 186, are a meaningful step toward making the United States competitive and bringing production back home.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Beyond biological and nuclear threats, AI companies face harsh organizational incentives to develop AI even faster and — experts say — more recklessly.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In both films, acting is the central source of the characters’ motivations.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Much is left unstated, requiring the reader to decipher character motivations.
    Anna Mebel, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • It’s called the Golden Spurs Award — given annually to the Campbell family member who shoots the turkey with the biggest spurs.
    Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The researchers observed bends, wiggles, kinks, gaps, branches, spurs and clumps.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Wallen specializes in whiskey-drunk seductions to skeptical girls who can’t resist his charms.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
  • 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
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
  • In this go-round, all the franchise’s favorite tricks have lost their impact, and its provocations ring hollow.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The incidents, including Lithuania’s first downing of a drone, underscore what NATO and EU leaders call a growing pattern of Russian provocations testing Europe’s borders and resolve.
    Liudas Dapkus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
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“Slush funds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20funds. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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