suborn
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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
“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 rather expensive preparations, costing almost 15,000 francs, had been much protracted, owing to the lukewarmness of the engineer and the continual efforts to suborn the workmen.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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 Ingersoll, Robert Green
Stanford’s former sailing coach pleaded guilty to conspiring with Singer, but no evidence has emerged that Singer suborned any coaches or officials at Harvard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
As universities are beaten into the shapes dictated by business, so language is suborned to its ends.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021
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
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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
Now adde to all this, the suborning of Subscriptions, and the Inflaming of Parties, what can be more Undutifull or Dangerous?
From Citt and Bumpkin (1680) by L'Estrange, Sir Roger
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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