corrupt
Example Sentences
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"So it's not surprising there are people who will make mistakes or who are corrupt," says Professor Kerry Brown of King's College London.
From BBC
It’s also linked to the modern evolution of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, based in part on Thomas Lawson’s 1907 best-seller about a corrupt stockbroker who crashes the market.
From Barron's
“Does the Department of War want something like that in their supply chain, so that it could hallucinate, it could corrupt models that are used by defense contractors who are building weapons systems of airplanes?”
Instead, it is wholly contingent and circumstantial, defined by what serves his own self-interest and corrupt needs and wants at any given moment.
From Salon
Many of the country’s 93 million people were deeply dissatisfied with the sclerotic and often corrupt rule that characterized the 36-plus-year reign of his father.
From Los Angeles Times
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