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bribery

[brahy-buh-ree] / ˈbraɪ bə ri /


NOUN
payola
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He often writes about sanctions, foreign bribery, illicit finance, competition, trade, data privacy and a range of other topics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The incident has drawn widespread public attention and renewed scrutiny of Indonesia's prisons, which have long faced allegations that wealthy or well-connected inmates can obtain preferential treatment through bribery.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Annie Clark, Collins’ deputy chief of staff, told ProPublica in an email that Collins’ office “vigorously” denies allegations of bribery and pay-for-play made by Kao, calling his claims “outlandish.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Sung, 54, who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of solicitation of bribery, is the highest-ranking sheriff’s official ever convicted by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I didn’t beg or offer bribery, as the others were doing.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

In spite of all the watchfulness, and all the briberies of his police, he could never bend to his own service the whole of this power.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

The barefaced acts of injustice and shameless briberies daily occurring in the Mehkames, or halls of justice, would seem almost incredible to an European, and especially an Englishman.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

By small briberies employed without sense of compromise, Mrs. Becker had a way with those who served her.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst

By the aid of certain small briberies on the train and in Paris Carmichael gathered, bit by bit, that the destination of the woman he loved was America.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

The last war between Russia and Turkey brought to light official fraud and briberies, connected especially with the commissary department of the army, which disgraced the whole nation in the eyes of the world.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou




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