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All I could think was that some lucky corrupt cop, like our neighbor, was going to benefit from my labor, and I’d be broke for the rest of my life.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

Memorable cinematic roles have included a corrupt police officer in the Harrison Ford thriller "Witness" and a comedy turn in Wes Anderson's eccentric "The Royal Tenenbaums," opposite Gene Hackman.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Most voters thought he was corrupt, and they were right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Whether Zambada has informed U.S. prosecutors about corrupt Mexican officials remains publicly unknown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Self-deception corrupts that process from within, and the cost grows with every generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

Davidson concedes that “those who worry that power corrupts and that once the right seizes power it too will be corrupted … have a point.”

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

What we know about power is that it always corrupts.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 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

The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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

He said authorities had been working to recover images from the home surveillance system that "may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors - including the removal of recording devices".

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 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

Then God spoke to Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch, instructing him to save his family and the animals from the great flood that would cleanse the Earth of the corrupted humans.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

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

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

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

Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil—which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer