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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cumshaw
Noun
  • The second bonus is $1 million if Burns appears in more than 70 games in 2025-26, and averages more than 23 minutes of ice time.
    Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Add herbs like rosemary or mint for a bonus fragrance and to incorporate more of your garden.
    Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Linda Sun, a former aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), was charged earlier this week with accepting bribes from companies selling personal protective equipment during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
    Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 29 June 2025
  • Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust, and accepting bribes in three separate cases.
    Mandy Taheri Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • But American science, including space science, has paid enormous dividends in keeping the nation strong, prosperous, and worthy of the world’s respect.
    Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 4 July 2025
  • That echoed our commentary yesterday after Club names Goldman and Wells Fargo announced big dividend hikes.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • For only $4, this is a great book to stock up for your own house or to give as gifts.
    Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 8 July 2025
  • What does the 60% of AGI limit for cash gifts mean?
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The administration’s efforts to stop this gravy train threaten the climate house of cards built up for decades.
    Peter Murphy, Boston Herald, 14 May 2025
  • This just-okay kids’ film — the sort trying to capitalize on the Harry Potter gravy train way after the fact — is set in the 1950s as a boy, Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), is sent to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents’ tragic death.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Cumshaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cumshaw. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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