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Mr. Ahamed, an unapologetic silver man, goes so far in his advocacy of remedial government action as to suborn the long-departed author of “Lombard Street,” published in 1873, to bear false witness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

"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

It had gone farther and had actually attempted to suborn by bribes the men who had been summoned as jurors in the trial in progress.

From The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

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

Also, wasn't Naz' lawyer suborning perjury by telling him to falsely confess to the crime?

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2016

During the progress of the trial, a fraud, a swindle, a petty theft, was perpetrated by the officers of government, which more than one man, high in office, had a hand in suborning.

From The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 by Michael Doheny