corrupt
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The former minister said he'd had no contact with the president for "a couple of weeks", and had no evidence the president was personally corrupt.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Even corrupt public servants deserve a second chance.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Tributes on Chinese social media revived Zhu’s most quotable lines, including his vow that he had prepared “100 coffins, 99 for corrupt officials and one for myself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The lawsuit, filed in New York by The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation, states that the scheme is "extraordinary, corrupt and unconstitutional."
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
He treats all the important people in East Africa: the corrupt politicians, the actors and actresses who get sick on safari, the decayed English-African nobility.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Self-deception corrupts that process from within, and the cost grows with every generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
What we know about power is that it always corrupts.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
We wanted to explore the idea, and particularly with Season 2, that power corrupts.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
This strain of rationalization feels familiar because it is universal: It’s how power corrupts and how the powerful sleep at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Secrecy is a form of power, and power corrupts.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
File names were usually corrupted, so Hannah Oh rarely knew the title, singer or release date.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Then things start to get more corrupted, and money plays a huge role ... as it always has throughout human history.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
"According to me and the majority of nations involved in this race, Canada corrupted everything that is meant to be fair and beautiful about our sport," she added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
In fact, the creature possesses an instinctive benevolence, which is corrupted by rejection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
He was trying to acculturate himself to a world that corrupted healthy human development in every way.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Reasonable people will go in circles forever about whether specific cases are proof of the industry’s maturity or proof of its corrupting effect.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
Far from corrupting high culture, the middlebrow was once the bulwark that protected it.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Two and a half millennia later, democracies are still deeply concerned about dangerous ideas corrupting the youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
When troublemaker Arlene moves in across the street to live with her father, Maria falls helplessly under her corrupting influence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
He turned off the TV and gave us a huge lecture about how “media like that is a corrupting influence” and “indecent behavior” blah blah blah.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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