anticorruption
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Since taking power in 2012, Xi has used anticorruption purges to consolidate control and advance plans to modernize a military that hasn’t fought a full-scale war since 1979, when China battled Vietnam.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Moody had made his name as an anticorruption crusader during his tenure as the state’s attorney general: Borger’s cartoonish governmental lawlessness struck him as both a political liability and a moral affront.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Luis Javier Santos, the anticorruption prosecutor overseeing the case, said he was skeptical that justice could be served.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
But Ukrainians protested until the government repealed the law and restored the anticorruption bodies’ independence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Current goals include attracting foreign investment, strengthening the educational system, resolving disputes with coca growers over Bolivia's counterdrug efforts, and waging an anticorruption campaign.
From The 2005 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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