bribed
Example Sentences
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Is it true, they ask, that Jefferson bribed Trumbull to make it look that way, to show that he, Jefferson, outranked Adams?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
More recently, as China assailed Japan, text messages and photos that Taiwan officials said came from the Chinese military spread the claim that Takaichi had been bribed by Taiwanese diplomats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
Standing amid an array of workstations, a volunteer explained how his team identified sympathetic individuals to buy medicine and food from Damascus, and middlemen who bribed supplies past government checkpoints into Sweida.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025
Gill had also been bribed to organise interviews with other MEPs for the TV stations linked to Medvedchuk.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
Anti-suffrage newspapers accused him of having been bribed.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
