suborn

"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

His original intention had been to attempt to suborn him, and render him pliable by bribery; but now that the moment for action was arrived he dared not make the offer.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

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

As universities are beaten into the shapes dictated by business, so language is suborned to its ends.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021

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

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

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

These were the ones to whom the accused had recourse in all their exigencies, suborning their expertness with a quantity of money.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen