taint

The good news is that the gala survived its Bezos taint.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

“It’s a crisis for a unit when its head is suspected of such serious violations of the law,” he said, adding that the episode shouldn’t “contaminate and taint the entire unit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

He also voiced concern that the draft lottery debate could "negatively taint the whole effort".

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

So as not to taint the results, I can’t talk too much about what we are testing here, but the purpose is to address some lingering questions about the dress effect and related stimuli.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2025

The antiempirical taint of the Pythagoreans survives to this day.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"These individuals should have no place in our game and collectively we have to take action to punish everyone who taints the sport like this, no matter who they are."

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

“Where is the line between an ethical lapse or a political misjudgment and something that kind of taints this office?” he asked.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

That authentic silhouette would erase the creep of modernization that taints many rental costumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

This anthropological ethnic elitism was a common underpinning feature of much 19th-century archaeology and taints aspects of some of the speculation regarding American Vikings in the 21st century.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023

As if having a sofa in a house on the ground taints its history in a house up in the sky.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw’s May decision to dismiss an indictment against Abrego Garcia after he found it was a blatantly tainted investigation “with a vindictive motive.”

From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2026

She said he had lost 11 of her 18 hectares in a wildfire, and didn't want to spend any money on harvesting surviving vines if the wine would be tainted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

His task was to clean up an organisation tainted by corruption allegations following the resignation of predecessor Sepp Blatter.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Taco Bell’s leadership team, many of whom were attending an off-site company event in Southern California, convened that night and made contingency plans to start pulling potentially tainted Taylor lettuce from stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The tainted air is reminiscent of a tomb.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Overturning Balogun’s red card has rankled even some American soccer fans, who see the intervention as tainting a U.S. run that had been gathering momentum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

And so if “a court always carries out those waivers—no matter the kind or degree of error tainting a sentence—the judicial system’s integrity may come into question.”

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

While none of the investigations target the president, Brazilians' weariness with corruption "ends up tainting those in power," Edinho Silva, head of the Workers' Party, lamented.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

"You're sort of tainting your offer if you go into a spat," she said.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

My rage spills out of me, tainting every move.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir