slush fund

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Recent Examples of slush fund The key is to avoid letting your money sit idle and turn into a nameless slush fund. Shane Enete, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 Those funds went to the chancellor’s office, part of a slush fund that paid for lavish dinners at the chancellor’s La Jolla mansion, unnecessary travel and other wastes. U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for slush fund
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush fund
Noun
  • Being direct with people earns their respect faster than any lecture about motivation.
    Marek Niedzwiedz, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • That has provided motivation for the 21-year-old receiver.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • To put it into perspective, the two 2020 and one 2021 stimulus checks issued to Americans from the stimulus package totaled around $931 billion in financial relief via the stimulus checks, according to reports from the Government Accountability Office in 2022.
    Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 25 July 2025
  • The big story China’s economy requires more than short-term stimulus, even as deflationary pressures intensify.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • As an example, traditional regulatory efforts tend to be seen as restrictive, while industrial policy typically incorporates enabling incentives to stimulate private or public sector action.
    Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Those higher prices give ranchers more incentive to sell cows now to capture profits instead of hanging onto them for breeding given that prices in the years ahead may decrease, Anderson said.
    Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • The film follows detective Nick Curran (Douglas) investigating a brutal murder that leads him into a dangerous game of seduction with prime suspect Catherine Tramell (Stone), a manipulative crime novelist.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 17 July 2025
  • To talk about Lyne is to talk about seduction of the flesh, of the image, of aspiration.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • His family’s crest is a flying spur, which signifies readiness and speed, and is derived from a spur that was delivered to Robert the Bruce to warn him to prepare for battle for the borders of Scotland; the crest was later awarded to the Johnstone family when Bruce became King of Scotland.
    Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Near the tunnel's halfway point, there's a 2.6-mile-long spur with the island of Kvitsøy, Norway's smallest municipality.
    Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • North Korea, which views the joint air drill as an intentional provocation, is determined to protect itself against military threats.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 12 July 2025
  • The design of social media has discouraged casual posting, with metrics that make users feel inadequate for not getting enough attention, and with algorithmic feeds that prioritize popular accounts that post constantly—not mundane moments but punditry, provocation, and self-promotion.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The temptation is strong to classify Untamed, the new series from screenwriter Mark L. Smith and his daughter Elle Smith, as Netflix’s answer to Paramount’s Yellowstone.
    Andy Crump, Time, 20 July 2025
  • The Risk Of Outsourcing Meaning As artificial intelligence becomes more common in corporate workflows, there’s a growing temptation to treat memory as another system to automate.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025

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“Slush fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20fund. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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