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She was found guilty on six counts of committing willful or corrupt misconduct in office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"You must be sure that your hands are clean. You can't be fighting corruption when your hands are soiled with corrupt practices," Olukoyede said.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

All this is symbolic of a man who is both pathetic and corrupt.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Tributes on Chinese social media revived Zhu’s most quotable lines, including his vow that he had prepared “100 coffins, 99 for corrupt officials and one for myself.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The United States-backed Lon Nol government was corrupt and weak and was easily defeated by the Khmer Rouge.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

“Money spent very quickly on the military corrupts very quickly,” said Dennis Wilder, a senior fellow at Georgetown University and former U.S. intelligence officer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

“The Boys” counters that if absolute power corrupts absolutely, then superpower corrupts superbly.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

The movie is a lark, not a hard-hitting statement about how mass media corrupts the soul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

“There’s rumored to be an entrance nearby to the last level of Asamando—the Eloko Forests. The Eloko corrupts everything it’s near. Weather. Plants. Friendships. It’s this corruption that affects the sands around here.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

File names were usually corrupted, so Hannah Oh rarely knew the title, singer or release date.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

"According to me and the majority of nations involved in this race, Canada corrupted everything that is meant to be fair and beautiful about our sport," she added.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

He was trying to acculturate himself to a world that corrupted healthy human development in every way.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

As in ancient Athens, those most vocal about the need to protect children from corrupting influences insist that such drastic measures constitute a defense of rather than an attack on democratic values and social cohesion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

When troublemaker Arlene moves in across the street to live with her father, Maria falls helplessly under her corrupting influence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

The same thing happened to those emperors who came to power from being private citizens by corrupting the soldiers.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli