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“And that is not a bribe because I have no intention of following through on that promise.”

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

And it has a good following already, with Purcell joking it is nice not having to bribe his friends and family to listen along.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

By the same token, medicine was free, but God help you if you didn’t bribe the doctors, while hospital nurses receiving no “gift” might let sick patients suffer in their excrement-soiled sheets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Veteran NBA point guard Terry Rozier — who has made $162 million in salary — is accused of agreeing to a $100,000 bribe to help gamblers win prop bets.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

“You’re trying to bribe me to miss the shot so you won’t have to pay me a million dollars.”

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman

Kao told the FBI that the lawmakers, lobbyists and Navatek brass understood these donations were bribes and that the payments were essential to the entire scheme.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Southern Glazer’s employees tried to distort the wine and spirits market in California through bribes and other improper conduct and in the end it was the consumer that lost out,” U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Earlier this year, Kim was sentenced to 20 months in jail for accepting bribes from the church.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

During his tenure, a former vice governor of eastern Jiangxi province was executed for taking bribes, the highest-ranking official to be put to death for such charges in five decades.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

The American candy worked extremely well as bribes to keep the little boys going.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

The country’s largest wine and spirits distributor has entered into an agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve allegations that its executives and employees bribed alcohol retailers for favorable placement of certain products.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Alan García, president from 1985 to 1990 and 2006 to 2011, killed himself in 2019 as he faced imminent arrest over allegations he was bribed by Odebrecht.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Is it true, they ask, that Jefferson bribed Trumbull to make it look that way, to show that he, Jefferson, outranked Adams?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Standing amid an array of workstations, a volunteer explained how his team identified sympathetic individuals to buy medicine and food from Damascus, and middlemen who bribed supplies past government checkpoints into Sweida.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025

He bribed ship captains and constables, rowed shivering pregnant women across rivers in leaky skiffs, and delivered judges’ release orders to frowning deputies.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

A South Korean court sentenced the leader of the secretive and powerful Unification Church on Monday to two years in prison on charges of bribing officials, including the then president's wife.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Some members of Deutsche Telekom’s supervisory board became concerned the donation could expose the parent company to allegations of illegally bribing a foreign government, said people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Next came Didius Julianus, a senatorial aristocrat who achieved the throne by bribing the guardsmen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

But Mabel Fairbanks, Babilonia’s skating coach, wouldn’t take no for an answer, bribing the 8-year-old with stickers and a Barbie doll if she would just reach out and grab the hand of 10-year-old Randy Gardner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

All the news cameras cared about was bribing students to talk about Jeremy.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers