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Longhurst, from Nantwich, Cheshire, his mother Terry Follows, 42, Shane Hunt, 39, and 19-year-old Dane Longhurst, all from Clwyd Street in Shotton, deny the charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Tolkien, a scholar of Old English, studied the “theory of courage” found in poems such as the ancient epic “Beowulf,” redeeming what he called the “noble northern spirit” from the fascists who would pervert it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

They also all claim the state-run institution conspired with Fujitsu to pervert the course of justice by "deliberately and dishonestly" withholding evidence.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

Acting High Court of Fiji Chief Justice Salesi Temo sentenced the 70-year-old in the capital Suva on a conviction for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

“Go back to the early 1800s in England, before some pervert invented machinery. What was life there?”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

“It inverts, or you might say perverts, the assumptions at the very foundation of the justification for the free market,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024

“If terrorism and violence in the name of dissent cannot be condoned, neither can violence that is officially sanctioned. Such action perverts the legal system that alone assures the survival of our traditions,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022

"They need protection from perverts like you," echoed conservative author Michael Malice.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2022

“The financial incentive of it kind of perverts the idea of informed consent a little bit,” he says.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2021

There is no sense in considering persons with single traits of this kind abnormal, and counting them among the perverts.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The movie projects contempt for the dense from its first frame, sharing a montage of recent pop culture as a stentorian narrator worries that modern conveniences have perverted the concept of survival of the fittest.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Mladenov has offered assurances that none of these provisions will be perverted to keep Hamas in power, and he has a team including a two-star U.S. general working to prevent that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The officer is alleged to have perverted the course of justice, but no arrests have been made, said police.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

What follows is a chorus of anecdotes, artworks and historical fragments tracing the pervasive — and sometimes perverted — roots of our everyday technologies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

He noticed Gibbon’s acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello’s love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago’s perverted love of Othello.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

We showed our recordings to Bryony Rest, who described Alias's conduct as amounting to "perverting the course of justice", and said he should be struck off.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Mark Pierce, senior review officer, said: "Forensic results, combined with a detailed review of witness evidence, have provided grounds to interview four people on suspicion of perverting the course of justice."

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

A fifth person, a 15-year-old girl, has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

A British woman has been jailed for six years in Hong Kong for blackmail and perverting the course of justice after a court found she made a false allegation of rape.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, IOI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline