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Recent Examples of mad money
The wrong reasons: Paying for a vacation or want some mad money, for example.
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Jeff Lazerson,
Oc Register,
5 June 2025
Against the backdrop of the mad money, the veteran quarterback looks like a major bargain for the Las Vegas Raiders.
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Jarrett Bell,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2023
That was before Monday, when Voyager Digital, the crypto brokerage that Cuban partnered with last fall, filed Chapter 11, apparently costing some Mavs fans their mad money in the process.
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Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas News,
11 July 2022
The untitled project follows a Swiss art dealer and Russian oligarch caught in a web of secrets, lies and mad money, telling the inside story of an international, billion-dollar game where power is the ultimate currency.
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Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2022
Ever-rising stock prices, fed by the Federal Reserve Board’s hedge-fund bailout and mad money printing approach to monetary policy, meant the only sucker’s game was not buying stocks.
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Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2022
Others are hobbyists, trading a chunk of their retirement portfolios or some mad money.
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Emily Flitter,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2020
Jeff Lazerson,
Oc Register,
5 June 2025
Against the backdrop of the mad money, the veteran quarterback looks like a major bargain for the Las Vegas Raiders.
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Jarrett Bell,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2023
That was before Monday, when Voyager Digital, the crypto brokerage that Cuban partnered with last fall, filed Chapter 11, apparently costing some Mavs fans their mad money in the process.
—
Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas News,
11 July 2022
The untitled project follows a Swiss art dealer and Russian oligarch caught in a web of secrets, lies and mad money, telling the inside story of an international, billion-dollar game where power is the ultimate currency.
—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2022
Ever-rising stock prices, fed by the Federal Reserve Board’s hedge-fund bailout and mad money printing approach to monetary policy, meant the only sucker’s game was not buying stocks.
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Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2022
Others are hobbyists, trading a chunk of their retirement portfolios or some mad money.
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Emily Flitter,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mad money
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But by the early 1900s, such drink stands were typically run by youth for pocket money or charity.
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Alongside neighborhood lemonade stands and lifeguarding gigs, millions of teenagers will be earning their pocket money online this summer.
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Some California lawmakers have come down on the bill for being too brazen and spending money California doesn’t have.
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The lawsuit says that if the land really had a new owner, the old owner should not still be spending money on it.
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Last year, Citizens for Waters was fined $68,000 for understating contributions and expenditures in its 2020 campaign as well as accepting $19,000 in over-the-limit contributions and unlawfully spending $7,000 from a petty cash fund.
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By law, the maximum contribution directly to a city candidate’s campaign is $1,000, which looks more and more like a petty cash account compared to the unlimited donations PCs can accept.
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But the data center boom has raised many questions about land use, the resources the complexes consume and the risk of costs being spread to other Georgia residents and businesses.
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Women build communities, launch initiatives, and create coalitions on shoestring budgets while the institutional resources that would let those efforts scale remain largely inaccessible.
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“Mad money.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mad%20money. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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