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In short, he claims a right to engage in the precise form of corrupt self-enrichment that has since the 14th century been the quintessential impeachable offense.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

If something that once seemed magical could be turned into something so corrupt in a comparably short time, its malevolent potential was a feature from the beginning, not a bug.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

“You’re messing with something that is there and it’s there for a purpose,” he said in a recorded call, insinuating Chavez was involved in other corrupt acts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

For Marx and Engels, “capitalistic” meant corrupt and exploitative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Magic is corrupt and vile, I know that.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The unseemly representation of necessary, lethal battle as some sort of videogame corrupts our national culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Downs: I think power corrupts; and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

We wanted to explore the idea, and particularly with Season 2, that power corrupts.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

While the word has been co-opted and corrupted by vision-board romantics and TikTok gurus, it’s still the key to making what we want happen.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Dive into this short story about humans’ first contact with an alien who’s been corrupted by some very modern vices.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Culture evolves, she says, and practices can be diluted or corrupted and she is showing what has happened to this one.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

But federal prosecutors argued that Left corrupted the business model by scheming to trade quickly around his statements on social media, where he had a huge following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

What is the code of normalcy before it becomes corrupted by cancer’s coda?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Documentarian Alex Gibney is no stranger to dissections of corrupting power — from his feature dives into Enron, Elizabeth Holmes and Scientology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

But Disney has shareholders to serve, and obviously intends to extract all it can from every piece of intellectual property it owns, no matter how creatively corrupting and tasteless the endeavor might be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Reasonable people will go in circles forever about whether specific cases are proof of the industry’s maturity or proof of its corrupting effect.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Far from corrupting high culture, the middlebrow was once the bulwark that protected it.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

He turned off the TV and gave us a huge lecture about how “media like that is a corrupting influence” and “indecent behavior” blah blah blah.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy