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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

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

Hinch deserves the asterisk removed from his name for the taint of the cheating scandal because he was a minor player and has owned his part in what happened.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025

“Ones that might get out in the world and taint the original species? Is that what you mean?”

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

“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

This anthropological ethnic elitism was a common underpinning feature of much 19th-century archaeology and taints aspects of some of the speculation regarding American Vikings in the 21st century.

From Slate ● Nov. 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

Taco Bell’s leadership team, many of whom were attending an off-site company event in Southern California, convened that night and made contingency plans to start pulling potentially tainted Taylor lettuce from stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

They are so angry at each other, their relationship tainted as if it, too, has been poisoned.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

And so if “a court always carries out those waivers—no matter the kind or degree of error tainting a sentence—the judicial system’s integrity may come into question.”

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 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

My rage spills out of me, tainting every move.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir