cushy
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It's been two and a half years since Neymar wore the famous jersey - and what a cushy way to make his return.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Ernst Baerwald’s odyssey from a cushy childhood in Frankfurt to his final days in a beautiful Berkeley mansion, with a long sojourn in Tokyo along the way, reads like, well, a novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Losing my cushy tech compensation package was obviously a huge hit.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
She has to care for her lush, out-of-work father while Blane enjoys the cushy comfort of financial stability.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
Compared with the boonies it was cushy duty.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Delta Air Lines has been upfront about its plans to bring those restrictive basic fares to its cushier cabins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Who doesn’t want a cushier retirement or an easier way to pay for that gym membership?
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2025
However, the Ariya is the more comfortable of these two EVs thanks to a smoother ride and cushier front seats.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Amy has a cushier living situation, but her stressors are not so different.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
His former marquee employees — Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Stephen K. Bannon and, yes, Scaramucci — have not climbed into cushier positions with the White House on their résumés.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2018
You must conclude that the elite college football coach — and even the pretty good one — has the cushiest job of all.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2022
But in return for his cooperation, he has been serving his sentence in a medium-security prison that Mr. McDugle and others said is about the cushiest incarceration location in the state.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2021
The content is not the same, but in both cases Americans are inhabiting a world in which one of the cushiest rewards for doing politics is to get into content creation, whatever form it takes.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2021
The federal prison is located roughly 70 miles northwest of city of the New York and has been called one of America's "cushiest" prisons.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2019
"Strike me ginger, balmy, and stony," Bill concluded, "if it were not for these few things the life in the trenches would be one of the cushiest in the world."
From The Red Horizon by MacGill, Patrick
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