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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of suborn.
Examples
“Having "suborned" (p. 119) many local leaders over generations (as colonialists always did), Britain set in motion a coup d'etat.”
Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II.
“Labour has suborned our constitution, trashed our economy, debauched our currency and all but broken the back of our Armed Forces.”
“Any ID can be faked, any database of 300 million people can be suborned.”
“The regulators have been suborned and we are so much poorer for it.”
“So I shore up my armamentarium of corticosteroids, ibuprofen, Plaquenil, acupuncture to beat back the cells you've suborned and inflamed.”
“As I have noted, and will return to in future columns in more detail, lenders and their agents frequently suborned appraisers by deliberately creating a Gresham's dynamic to try to induce them to inflate market values, leaked the loan amount to the appraisers, drove the appraisal fraud, and made it endemic.”
“Its tentacles, they insisted, not only reached into every part of the economy, but also corrupted churches, the press, and institutions of higher learning, destroyed the family, and suborned public officials from the president on down.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation
“Manipulating witnesses and using suborned testimony are standard operating procedure.”
The Wall Street Journal: A 'Human Rights' Swindle in Colombia
“The best they can do is sniff out chemicals used in the leading manufacturer and it is up to police forces suborned by the movie industry to decide if they ` re counterfeits or not.”
“As we now know, it has also suborned politicians and the police and operated as a freelance security service – not to expose the abuse of power, but to carry it out.”
The Guardian: Murdoch: This scandal has exposed the scale of elite corruption | Seumas Milne
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Words from the Works of Charles Dickens
A delightful collection of words found in my reading of Dickens.
perspicuity, farinaceous, superciliously, epergne, staylace, sanguinary, myrmidon, suborned, linchpin, depreciatory, unremunerative, propitiation and 18 more...
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eggoabbas past tense of suborn Jul 23, 2009