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
But to sit silent now is to suborn The common villainy you scorn.
From The Unknown Eros by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
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
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
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
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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
Lawyers can't advise you to lie, or they will be suborning perjury.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2023
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
Continually scheming against the objects of their avarice and hatred, preparing poisons or suborning bravoes, they know that these same arts will be employed against them.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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