taint
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Many mom bloggers, Ms. Wiley tells Ms. Latifi, worried that the incentives that come with monetization would taint their work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
The big difference was they didn’t have the taint of disco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
He also voiced concern that the draft lottery debate could "negatively taint the whole effort".
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
And it’s all too easy to accidentally taint a drop of blood at home.
From Slate ● May 28, 2025
Where Ophie and her mother huddled, the air was still clear and sweet, even as the acrid scent of burning wood began to taint it.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
A 2017 study found that human-caused noise, largely from roads, taints nearly two-thirds of America’s protected areas.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
“Where is the line between an ethical lapse or a political misjudgment and something that kind of taints this office?” he asked.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
That authentic silhouette would erase the creep of modernization that taints many rental costumes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Anything that taints their preconceived notion of how they should be.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2023
As if having a sofa in a house on the ground taints its history in a house up in the sky.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw’s May decision to dismiss an indictment against Abrego Garcia after he found it was a blatantly tainted investigation “with a vindictive motive.”
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2026
The chain convened late-night meetings to coordinate response and pull potentially tainted lettuce from hundreds of locations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Australia denounced Laos' response to a 2024 tainted alcohol poisoning that killed six tourists, saying Friday it is "bitterly disappointed" the country is not pressing stronger charges.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Attorneys for the owners of the landfill, which stopped accepting trash last year, claimed this spring in the litigation that the lawsuits may be tainted by fraud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was drizzling, but even if there’d been no clouds the city sky was too tainted with light to show the stars.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Overturning Balogun’s red card has rankled even some American soccer fans, who see the intervention as tainting a U.S. run that had been gathering momentum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
While none of the investigations target the president, Brazilians' weariness with corruption "ends up tainting those in power," Edinho Silva, head of the Workers' Party, lamented.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
His independent streak and defiance of colonial protocols often landed him in trouble - tainting his reputation and perhaps even erasing parts of his contribution from global memory.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
Witness intimidation is a bigger problem than tainting the jury pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
My rage spills out of me, tainting every move.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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