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suborn

[suh-bawrn] / səˈbɔrn /
VERB
incite to commit crime
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"It is absolutely an adversary in some areas, which tries to steal our intellectual property, or suborn our citizens," says Lord Ricketts.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2025

“While government agents are permitted to coach cooperating witnesses during the course of an investigation,” he said in an order, “they are not permitted to suborn the commission of a crime.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2020

He’s so important that people even pour their efforts into trying to corrupt or suborn him.

From The Verge Feb. 4, 2019

Number two, I am well aware and have a lot of experience in observing what the Russians will do to try to suborn American citizens, to get Americans to this to work for them.

From MSNBC Aug. 18, 2018

The realonus imposed on Lord John's party is, where to look for, and how to suborn, some new idol and some fresh idolatry.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defiles the jury box, and stains the judicial ermine.

From Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs by Robert Green Ingersoll

Rosen said Thursday that when Meredith was approached by the FBI after the hotel room sting, Singer’s sprawling conspiracy and his network of allegedly suborned coaches “wasn’t on our radar.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 2019

With plenty of money to spread around, Bandar charmed -- which in this context means suborned -- the Washington establishment, while ingratiating himself with successive presidents and various other power brokers.

From Salon Nov. 27, 2018

National policy is suborned, on some issues, to the vetoes and powers of the larger union.

From New York Times Jul. 6, 2018

Try saying something like that at one of those business-sponsored conferences where bullheaded billionaires and those whom they’ve effectively suborned are telling us we need to get much tougher with our children.

From Washington Post Sep. 27, 2017

He suborned Kaan’s eastern neighbor, Naranjo, which attacked Mutal’s former ally, Oxwitza’.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The newly elected disrict attorney said his office's stance on the case could change if the brothers "completely accept responsibility for their lies of self-defense and the attempted suborning of perjury they engaged in".

From BBC Mar. 10, 2025

And: “Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the President, such as suborning perjury, intimidating witnesses, or fabricating evidence.”

From Slate May 29, 2019

Similarly, if Richard Nixon had not been worried about the truth, he would not have been suborning perjury.”

From Washington Post Apr. 24, 2018

In each state, researchers examined court rulings from 2004 through 2008 in which judges found that prosecutors had committed violations such as mischaracterizing evidence or suborning perjury.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2016

Next morning, the fourth, came Schwarzenberg's assent, and Marmont at once set about suborning his officers; at four in the afternoon arrived an embassy from Fontainebleau on its way to Paris.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane




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