perquisites

Example Sentences

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Littleness is everywhere evident among those who grab the headlines, demand recognition and deference and seek the perquisites and privileges of power by promising grandiosity in place of greatness.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

It was likely that organizing would come for Starbucks, despite the company’s perquisites, such as tuition aid at Arizona State University, one of my alma maters.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2023

Instead, the Russian authorities have been luring recruits to join combat by offering them hefty cash incentives and other perquisites.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Set in the fictional Kershaw University — described in a Times review as “only 200 years younger than Harvard” — the novel skewered the academic world, its denizens and their perquisites.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020

However, whereas the lineages of tribal villages are equal-ranked clans, in a chiefdom all members of the chief’s lineage had hereditary perquisites.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond