bribe

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

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

“I think it works the opposite way, because most people have the opinion that, ‘hey, are they trying to bribe us here?’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

He told us he was contacted twice by text and offered a massive bribe - "enough money to retire on".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The $100,000 bribe prosecutors say he agreed to is the equivalent of $384 for someone making $100,000 a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

If time and opportunity did not allow, then Ginger would have to go into her act without a bribe.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Fiji's government demanded Friday that the United States hand over evidence showing a Chinese state agency employee living in the country paid bribes on behalf of Beijing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He says staff fear they could be targeted, or that criminals could use the data to create highly convincing phishing attempts, scams or demands for bribes.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

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

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

So their father taught them in short spurts — 20 minutes maximum, he says — and bribed them with pizza and Capri-Suns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

He also told investigators that the allegation that he had "bribed" Alison-Madueke was "completely untrue".

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

More recently, as China assailed Japan, text messages and photos that Taiwan officials said came from the Chinese military spread the claim that Takaichi had been bribed by Taiwanese diplomats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 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

Rather than stay safely away, Farmer bribed his way back in, to continue his work at the Mirebalais hospital.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The brothers were nearly sidelined after a corruption scandal in Brazil almost a decade ago, in which they admitted to bribing politicians and spent several months in jail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Four years later, federal prosecutors in New York charged the company with bribing Chinese officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

Some of them, those in a better economic position, attempted to win her heart by bribing her daughter.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende