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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

Most voters thought he was corrupt, and they were right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Were teachers as corrupt as the villains you read about in books or saw in movies and television?

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

His relationship with his Jewish neighbors, the Brodskys, grows closer as Nazi power corrupts France.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

“If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell wrote, “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.”

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023

I believe having an audience naturally corrupts the per-formance.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

The papers that have used the corrupted data set remain in the literature today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

He said authorities had been working to recover images from the home surveillance system that "may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors - including the removal of recording devices".

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 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 so crazy that he corrupted sane men.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

By crowding out normal blood production and corrupting the immune system from within, some forms progress slowly, others aggressively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 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