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Many Venezuelans see Betancourt as a “totemic, emblematic, corrupt figure,” said Brian Naranjo, a former senior U.S. diplomat in Venezuela, in an interview.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

"This is not an accusation that Attorney General James is corrupt, acting in bad faith or incapable of performing her duties professionally," the statement said.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“A substantial custodial sentence is necessary to deter other private clients from attempting to corrupt law-enforcement officers by paying them to perform acts they could never lawfully accomplish themselves,” Assistant U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

But—and this is your columnist speaking, not Mr. Horowitz—a theme to emerge from the report is that Mr. Powell & Co. were too incompetent to be corrupt even if they had wanted to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Many people were tired of the spoils system that rewarded corrupt politicians.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

While the word has been co-opted and corrupted by vision-board romantics and TikTok gurus, it’s still the key to making what we want happen.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Dive into this short story about humans’ first contact with an alien who’s been corrupted by some very modern vices.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Culture evolves, she says, and practices can be diluted or corrupted and she is showing what has happened to this one.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

But federal prosecutors argued that Left corrupted the business model by scheming to trade quickly around his statements on social media, where he had a huge following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted?

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

The accessibility and pervasiveness of betting platforms makes the possibility of corrupting jurors a real risk, said University of Chicago law professor M. Todd Henderson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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

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

Steve Eisman was odd in his conviction that the leveraging of middle-class America was a corrupt and corrupting event, and that the subprime mortgage market in particular was an engine of exploitation and, ultimately, destruction.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis