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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
suborn .
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Examples
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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. 2007
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The regulators have been suborned and we are so much poorer for it.
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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.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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Manipulating witnesses and using suborned testimony are standard operating procedure.
A 'Human Rights' Swindle in Colombia Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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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.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation Steve Fraser 2011
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Any ID can be faked, any database of 300 million people can be suborned.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010
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Labour has suborned our constitution, trashed our economy, debauched our currency and all but broken the back of our Armed Forces.
To Nobody's Surprise 2009
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So I shore up my armamentarium of corticosteroids, ibuprofen, Plaquenil, acupuncture to beat back the cells you've suborned and inflamed.
Wolves and Butterflies Linda Simoni-Wastila 2010
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Labour has suborned our constitution, trashed our economy, debauched our currency and all but broken the back of our Armed Forces.
Archive 2009-08-30 2009
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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.
William K. Black: How Did a Relatively Small Number of Subprime Loans Cause a Record Crisis? William K. Black 2011
eggoabbas commented on the word suborned
past tense of suborn
July 23, 2009