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bribery

[brahy-buh-ree] / ˈbraɪ bə ri /


NOUN
payola
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One of the women and the man in his 50s were also being held on suspicion of bribery and fraud by failing to disclose.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Unlike the British, from whom the America’s founders adapted impeachment, the Framers wrote a definition of impeachable conduct into the Constitution—“treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

A US judge threw out a case against Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani on Monday after the Trump administration decided to drop the fraud and bribery allegations against him.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

The country ranked 104th out of 182 in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index after decades of bribery and influence-peddling scandals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

If bribery wasn’t an option, she’d have to outwit him.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Now your Lordships will find, that, of these faithful domestic servants, there is not one of them who was not concerned in these enormous briberies, and in betraying their own native and natural master.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

One had to run the gauntlet of the custom-house here, and to practise unheard-of briberies upon the venal douaniers of the Pope before being allowed to pass on to his hotel.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

In spite of all the watchfulness, and all the briberies of his police, he could never bend to his own service the whole of this power.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

These deities might be lured by certain rites and briberies into a transfer of their favors to the besieging army.

From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey

But whether Mr. Hastings had the example of others or not, their example could not justify his briberies.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke




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