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
"I only hope that after I step down, people across the country will say that 'he was an honest official, not a corrupt one' and I'll be very satisfied with that," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
“To finance corrupt practices? I don’t think so. It has to go to the federations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Pleasure is never quite sufficient justification for cooking something yourself; the viewer must also understand that the old version was artificial, addictive or imposed upon them by a corrupt system.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 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 movie is a lark, not a hard-hitting statement about how mass media corrupts the soul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
What we know about power is that it always corrupts.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
“If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell wrote, “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.”
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023
I believe having an audience naturally corrupts the per-formance.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The papers that have used the corrupted data set remain in the literature today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
He’s corrupted from the inside by a system that has no regard for his humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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
"And you have to take care of yourself, son. Don't let this Harlem git you. I'm in New York but New York ain't in me, understand what I mean? Don't git corrupted."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
It is shocking to read here of the coarsening and corrupting effect of such spectacles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
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
He turned off the TV and gave us a huge lecture about how “media like that is a corrupting influence” and “indecent behavior” blah blah blah.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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