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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

"I only hope that after I step down, people across the country will say that 'he was an honest official, not a corrupt one' and I'll be very satisfied with that," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Pleasure is never quite sufficient justification for cooking something yourself; the viewer must also understand that the old version was artificial, addictive or imposed upon them by a corrupt system.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

It’s every bit as corrupt as it sounds!

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Figures stood there at its head, carven with cunning in forms human and bestial, but all corrupt and loathsome.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The unseemly representation of necessary, lethal battle as some sort of videogame corrupts our national culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

“This is an act of pure cowardice for short-term gain that corrupts every journalistic value imaginable,” said USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Gabriel Kahn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

“The Boys” counters that if absolute power corrupts absolutely, then superpower corrupts superbly.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

I believe having an audience naturally corrupts the per-formance.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 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

People are using it to analyze federal economic data, recover wedding photos from a corrupted hard drive, build new websites from scratch, answer a barrage of emails or order food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026

We would only do this if our goal was corrupted.

From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2026

This is a private place, a sanctuary, already corrupted by the Capitol’s evil.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

But Disney has shareholders to serve, and obviously intends to extract all it can from every piece of intellectual property it owns, no matter how creatively corrupting and tasteless the endeavor might be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

But the judge said Bembridge had a public role and had failed to carry out his duties on behalf of the King for a corrupting motive.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

Instead, Jerry takes every shortcut he can without considering the ethical fine print, aligning himself with Carl and Gaear and corrupting his soul in the process.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 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