suborn
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“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
Even men who knew that Clay preferred Adams, and that Adams welcomed the prospect of Clay in his cabinet, understood that the two men had conspired to suborn the will of the people of Kentucky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2016
They suborn their reason to declare in favor of their necessity.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
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
He said he was given a limited grant of immunity before he testified about the “cover story” for the Twitter message because otherwise he might have been charged with suborning perjury.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2018
Similarly, if Richard Nixon had not been worried about the truth, he would not have been suborning perjury.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2018
Shee set men about him to incense and egge him on in courses of discontentment, and other supervising espialls, to plye followe and spurre for-warde those suborning incensers.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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