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Recent Examples of slush fund
Unfortunately, politicians can take advantage of the resulting slush funds for projects that have nothing to do with fighting blight.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
Republican opposition to the Toxic Exposure Fund largely centers around their claims that the pot of money, created after passage of the 2022 PACT Act, is a slush fund for the VA with little oversight.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
This $20 billion was moved out of the Treasury into a slush fund where there was no oversight of the spending.
—John Griggs, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
The result is the giant slush fund with no way to determine when the financial responsibilities for the capital portions of each program have been met and therefore when more money might be available for bridge maintenance.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
Republican opposition to the Toxic Exposure Fund largely centers around their claims that the pot of money, created after passage of the 2022 PACT Act, is a slush fund for the VA with little oversight.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
This $20 billion was moved out of the Treasury into a slush fund where there was no oversight of the spending.
—John Griggs, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
The result is the giant slush fund with no way to determine when the financial responsibilities for the capital portions of each program have been met and therefore when more money might be available for bridge maintenance.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush fund
Noun
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Have the Yankees used that fifth inning for motivation or just flushed it?—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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The days of dodging class or suffering from a lack of motivation appear to be a thing of the past at Alpha School, a private pre-K through eighth grade institution that utilizes personalized artificial intelligence to teach an entire day of core academic lessons in just two hours.—
Alex Backus,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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The recordings revealed that AWB and ASH, two neurons that are responsible for making sense of olfactory stimuli, were activated when the corpses and fluids were present, indicating that the worms were smelling the signature of death.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
23 May 2025
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When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps is encoded in the region of the brain called the amygdala, which connects simple stimuli with basic emotions.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
21 May 2025
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An example of the latter includes receiving restricted stock units (RSUs) or exercising incentive stock options (ISOs).—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Use incentive campaigns to drive reach growth and engagement, which will enhance conversions across your websites and platforms.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Viewers eager for strategy and a touch of seduction will find everything waiting when Scandal lands back on Netflix on June 17.—
Tahar Rajab,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 May 2025
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Especially in the language, there’s a lot of seduction in the lyrics.—
Vita Dadoo,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
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According to the National Wild Turkey Federation, around one percent of toms have multiple spurs.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
7 May 2025
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Each of its legs had a 1 3/8-inch spur, plus another 5/8-inch spur beside the first one.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
7 May 2025
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The defense, however, said Jones was the real villain, stating that the teenager had been the first to start shooting, firing on Derrick without provocation from a moving car because Jones was angry with how Derrick had treated his cousin.—
John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
23 May 2025
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Investigators say Rodriguez drew a 9 mm handgun and opened fire without provocation.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2025
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Defensive tackle Ed Oliver will be only 28 in 2026, but the team did just draft Sanders and has a potential out from Oliver’s deal in 2027, yielding $13 million in cap space that year, which might persuade them to resist the temptation of taking away some of that flexibility.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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The temptation among Democratic lawmakers will be to hunt for new revenue.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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“Slush fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush%20fund. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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