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corruptions

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The subtext plays out in how the town confronts the other corruptions in its midst.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025

He said: "People are determined to live... normally without crime and corruptions, without prices going wild."

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2023

The privilege becomes evident as the book unleashes its vision of interlocking corruptions among the spectacularly decadent elite presiding over Asia’s oldest democracy.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Vader’s leitmotif is, as music theorist Mark Richards has shown, a deviously sophisticated tune, full of rhythmic quirks and harmonic corruptions.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2019

The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis