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bribery

[brahy-buh-ree] / ˈbraɪ bə ri /


NOUN
payola
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He often writes about sanctions, foreign bribery, illicit finance, competition, trade, data privacy and a range of other topics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Annie Clark, Collins’ deputy chief of staff, told ProPublica in an email that Collins’ office “vigorously” denies allegations of bribery and pay-for-play made by Kao, calling his claims “outlandish.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Prosecutors began investigating the bribery scheme after receiving a 2018 tip about an unusual donation to Smith’s reelection campaign.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Hui Ka Yan pleaded guilty in April to several charges, including embezzlement of assets and corporate bribery.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

If bribery wasn’t an option, she’d have to outwit him.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

The barefaced acts of injustice and shameless briberies daily occurring in the Mehkames, or halls of justice, would seem almost incredible to an European, and especially an Englishman.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

By small briberies employed without sense of compromise, Mrs. Becker had a way with those who served her.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst

By the aid of certain small briberies on the train and in Paris Carmichael gathered, bit by bit, that the destination of the woman he loved was America.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

One had to run the gauntlet of the custom-house here, and to practise unheard-of briberies upon the venal douaniers of the Pope before being allowed to pass on to his hotel.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

In spite of all the watchfulness, and all the briberies of his police, he could never bend to his own service the whole of this power.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart




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