How to Use golden parachute in a Sentence

golden parachute

noun
  • None of this looks good, and the golden parachute clause smells bad.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And Moonves would depart with a golden parachute likely worth north of $180 million.
    Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
  • That dominance has not been a golden parachute, though.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 9 May 2020
  • Such golden parachutes are products of a cyclical paradox of sorts.
    Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019
  • As is so often the case among Beltway elites, Sasse will be leaving Washington by means of a golden parachute.
    Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The documentary spends a lot of time on Adam Neumann, who ended up with a $1.7 billion golden parachute.
    Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • More of today's news: Was adoption czar's $60K 'golden parachute' legal?
    Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The unanimous vote, for what critics call a golden parachute, would saddle taxpayers with untold future costs.
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Presidents didn’t always leave office with a golden parachute.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
  • For people in poor countries with few opportunities, this dangerous job can seem like a golden parachute.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2020
  • And the district did indeed stop baking an offer of a golden parachute into its contracts with top administrators.
    oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2019
  • His eccentricities, including a party-all-the-time, spend-spend-spend ethos, played no small role in his downfall, though a golden parachute of $1.7 billion certainly helped cushion the landing.
    Shirley Halperin, Variety, 28 July 2022
  • But the impending layoffs have become a lightning rod issue because of Neumann's golden parachute included with the SoftBank bailout.
    Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The golden parachute accounted for more than half of the $11.3 million in total compensation five USAA insurance companies paid him last year.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This shakedown was legitimate, audacious, and meant to enrich struggling youth, not provide a golden parachute.
    Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The expansion of unemployment, initially seen as an exigent backstop, was now portrayed as a golden parachute that encouraged people not to work.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Executives often revise their change-in-control packages, sometimes referred to as golden parachutes, when there is takeover interest in their companies.
    Nathan Becker, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
  • The 11% tuition increase had become a point of contention for university students angered at how trustees gifted a substantial golden parachute to outgoing President Rahmat Shoureshi.
    oregonlive.com, 13 June 2019
  • Neumann had pursued unsustainable expansion plans, keeping the company afloat with capital infusions from hoodwinked investors, and he was ousted as C.E.O., albeit with a golden parachute worth more than a billion dollars.
    The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Additionally, Allbirds is not required to hold a stockholder advisory vote on executive compensation or previously unapproved golden parachute payments.
    David Trainer, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021

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