bought off
Example Sentences
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Some insiders were apparently bought off during the planning of the incursion.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026
But it’s his unboxing videos that are truly addicting, almost as if we, the viewer, were absorbing that surge of dopamine that comes from finally opening up something special we bought off the internet.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Ian J. Stones was convicted of being bought off to provide intelligence to “external forces,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said when asked about the case at a daily briefing.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Lauriot-Prévost furnished it, appropriately, with midcentury Modern furniture bought off the internet.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022
Also because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that's about ten miles wide and ten miles long.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
