corruption
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Over the last two decades, Chinese football has been plagued with a funding crisis and widespread corruption which have resulted in lifetime bans for some players, referees and club officials.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Right now, corruption and accountability are particularly salient for both voters and lawmakers.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
Pepys’s financial corruption, common enough among officials of his rank, is well known, having come out in the unexpurgated edition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The conditions under which the 2014 contract was awarded were the subject of a wide-ranging investigation in Brazil over suspicions that corruption influenced the decision to opt for the Swedish plane over the French-made Rafale.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing corruption
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