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“This case revealed that foreign governments will bribe insiders to obtain the user information that is collected and stored by our Silicon Valley social media companies,” U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Your employer will bribe you with stories to focus on your job.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011

When my epistles come to be weighed with Pliny's, however superior to them in Roman delicate irony, judicious reflections, etc., his gilt post will bribe over the judges to him.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

I think money will bribe him to carry a message to Eudora, and to place a ladder near the outer wall for her escape.

From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

"Nor to any one that will bribe them," said Gerrard bitterly.

From The Path to Honour by Grier, Sydney C.