taint

Snyder expressed concern that such automation would taint the company’s efforts to sustain its in-person customer service and fresh food.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

“It’s a crisis for a unit when its head is suspected of such serious violations of the law,” he said, adding that the episode shouldn’t “contaminate and taint the entire unit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

He also voiced concern that the draft lottery debate could "negatively taint the whole effort".

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

Such cheerful platitudes would carry a taint of irony, in retrospect, when authorities exposed the harm and suffering they alleged had been inflicted under Guo's watch.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

The antiempirical taint of the Pythagoreans survives to this day.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"These individuals should have no place in our game and collectively we have to take action to punish everyone who taints the sport like this, no matter who they are."

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

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

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

Soviet authorities famously denied a leak of anthrax spores in 1979, blaming tainted meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

In a victim impact statement, Morgan's mother Marie Smith said the family now "lives under a shadow", with every major milestone "tainted" without her present.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

She said he had lost 11 of her 18 hectares in a wildfire, and didn't want to spend any money on harvesting surviving vines if the wine would be tainted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Some of our regular adversaries complained loud and long about how the inclusion of some of our pictures had tainted their precious yearbook.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

Petey didn’t want to think about that party, didn’t want to think about the crickets, didn’t want that humiliating night spilling over, tainting this one or any other.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby