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taint

[teynt] / teɪnt /




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“I am sure your family and business partners will learn about you and your misdeeds from these interviews and will provide exposure that will taint your record forever,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 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

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




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