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But since last September, as witnesses gave evidence to the Madlanga Commission, allegations that Matlala had a close and corrupt relationship with senior police officers emerged in the public domain.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

All I could think was that some lucky corrupt cop, like our neighbor, was going to benefit from my labor, and I’d be broke for the rest of my life.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

Memorable cinematic roles have included a corrupt police officer in the Harrison Ford thriller "Witness" and a comedy turn in Wes Anderson's eccentric "The Royal Tenenbaums," opposite Gene Hackman.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Intrigue begets further intrigue, and the reader struggles to keep up with a swirl of subplots involving Sweety’s assistant, a missing computer, blackmail, gangsters and corrupt politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

A faint, corrupt perfume hung in the air.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Self-deception corrupts that process from within, and the cost grows with every generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

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

This strain of rationalization feels familiar because it is universal: It’s how power corrupts and how the powerful sleep at night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

The very desire of it corrupts the heart.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He’s corrupted from the inside by a system that has no regard for his humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

People are using it to analyze federal economic data, recover wedding photos from a corrupted hard drive, build new websites from scratch, answer a barrage of emails or order food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026

We would only do this if our goal was corrupted.

From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2026

What the classical music world realized was that what they had thought was a pure and powerful first impression—listening to someone play—was in fact hopelessly corrupted.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Two and a half millennia later, democracies are still deeply concerned about dangerous ideas corrupting the youth.

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

Steve Eisman was odd in his conviction that the leveraging of middle-class America was a corrupt and corrupting event, and that the subprime mortgage market in particular was an engine of exploitation and, ultimately, destruction.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis