corrupt
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"You must be sure that your hands are clean. You can't be fighting corruption when your hands are soiled with corrupt practices," Olukoyede said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
Less than four years before, in November 1956, Castro and a force of eighty-one rebels had sailed from Mexico to Cuba, determined to retake their homeland from a corrupt dictator, Fulgencio Batista.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Self-deception corrupts that process from within, and the cost grows with every generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
The old adage is true: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026
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 very desire of it corrupts the heart.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
In fact, the creature possesses an instinctive benevolence, which is corrupted by rejection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
We would only do this if our goal was corrupted.
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2026
“But never in the Cursed Forest. Magic here is corrupted and weird, and it’s not safe to use it if you haven’t completely mastered it.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
The indictment accused him of impiety and added, “Socrates is…also guilty of corrupting the youth.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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
They said I would be a corrupting influence.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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