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One Kano resident, who asked to be anonymous, said he had been asked to pay a bribe to get on the list.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

He told us he was contacted twice by text and offered a massive bribe - "enough money to retire on".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The $100,000 bribe prosecutors say he agreed to is the equivalent of $384 for someone making $100,000 a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

In the lower court ruling, one of the handbags was not recognised as a bribe because it had been gifted to Kim before her husband's presidential inauguration.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

She described how she stormed into Nazi headquarters and tried to bribe Gestapo agents to let her friends go after they were captured.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

During his tenure, a former vice governor of eastern Jiangxi province was executed for taking bribes, the highest-ranking official to be put to death for such charges in five decades.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

The party has long grappled with venal insiders—including antigraft inspectors—who leak secrets about corruption probes in return for bribes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

But in October last year the Supreme Court quashed that argument, saying that any such cash likely stemmed from illegal bribes and therefore should not be counted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

The interior department secretary accepted bribes in exchange for awarding oil leases during Warren Harding's presidency in the 1920s, an episode known as the Teapot Dome scandal.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

This was why people took bribes and asked for bribes; how else could anyone honestly pay two years’ rent in advance?

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Is it true, they ask, that Jefferson bribed Trumbull to make it look that way, to show that he, Jefferson, outranked Adams?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

More recently, as China assailed Japan, text messages and photos that Taiwan officials said came from the Chinese military spread the claim that Takaichi had been bribed by Taiwanese diplomats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, Habib is now back in Syria after, he says, having bribed several commanders to terminate his contract.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

Gill had also been bribed to organise interviews with other MEPs for the TV stations linked to Medvedchuk.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

One sultry afternoon, on his way home from the menagerie, he went to the Colosseum and bribed his way into the cellars where the wild beasts were kept.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Some members of Deutsche Telekom’s supervisory board became concerned the donation could expose the parent company to allegations of illegally bribing a foreign government, said people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Also on trial, oil industry executive Olatimbo Ayinde, 54, denies one count of bribery and another count of bribing a foreign public official.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

The leader of one of South Korea's largest cult-like churches stood trial on Monday accused of bribing the country's former first lady with gifts including a designer handbag and a diamond necklace.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

They cautioned that a settlement could be viewed as bribing an elected official to win favorable regulatory treatment with regard to the Skydance merger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

Suddenly, Shirley remembered the trick she had played, bribing the boys.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord