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In effect, they are bribing students with good grades to get good grades themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

One minute Mom and Bridget and I are bribing him to take showers and the next minute he’s asking Mom if he can buy his own clothes for school.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Out of respect to me you will see me no more, and yet are bribing me with presents, believing you have found out the surest way to a woman's heart.

From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Behn, Aphra

They are bribing you, fooling you with the promise of a big audience.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

You are bribing him to act as your spy?”

From Jewel Weed by Fisher, Harrison