Example Sentences

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“Bribes require a briber and somebody who accepts that bribe,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021

In return for funds for his re-election campaign, Mr. Thomas offered to make the briber, who became a cooperating witness, the school board’s real estate counsel, the complaint said.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2019

They will also argue the alleged briber was only a consultant to IMR, not an employee.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2013

But he failed to see that his revelations had brought to light his own culpability as a briber and that he would draw further resentment from Britain's power circles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, could he be all of them: Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the briber and Rine the lover and Rinehart the Reverend?

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison