How to Use anti-corruption in a Sentence
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Only five of the 23 counts against Madigan are tied to the anti-corruption law and could be dropped.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
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Yes, but: Only five of the 23 counts against Madigan are tied to the anti-corruption law and could be dropped.
—Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 9 July 2024
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The program was launched in 1988 as part of a series of anti-corruption reforms.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
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Its anti-corruption activists and defense entrepreneurs hope that the West will be patient—and have faith.
—Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
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Much of his appeal lay in the anti-corruption ethos that was a central plank of his agenda, both as a military and civilian ruler.
—Benjamin Ezeamalu, USA Today, 14 July 2025
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Some Democrats pushed back against the bill, citing Mr. Trump's crypto holdings and calling for anti-corruption rules.
—Nancy Cordes, CBS News, 22 May 2025
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The 72-year-old centrist Mulet has taken a vocal anti-corruption stance in recent months.
—Tara John, CNN, 24 June 2023
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Trump has only gotten more and more brazen as he’s played chicken with our anti-corruption standards and won every time.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 May 2025
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The public has a right to know that current and former public servants comply with anti-corruption laws.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
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After last week's move to weaken the anti-corruption agencies, the EU froze $1.7 billion in non-military aid.
—Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 1 Aug. 2025
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In recent months, despite martial law, anti-corruption protests have been held in many Ukrainian cities.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2023
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Yoon has also filed legal complaints against those who tried to arrest him including the head of the state anti-corruption agency.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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Under the agreement, the company will have to demonstrate good conduct for the next 3½ years and foster a culture of ethics and compliance with anti-corruption laws.
—Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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The central threat to his government and its anti-corruption promises is Ms. Porras.
—Jody García, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2024
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Similar anti-corruption laws can be found around the world, and U.S. and foreign multinationals are still subject to them.
—Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
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López Obrador was elected president in 2018 — his third attempt at the top office — on an anti-corruption platform.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
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The new framework has four major pillars: supply chains, climate, anti-corruption and trade.
—Colleen Long, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
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The images of notorious bribe-takers walking out of prison and the mass resignation of the Milan anti-corruption pool in protest of the decree forced a crisis.
—Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
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Asa Keyes, the anti-corruption L.A. district attorney (who would himself be jailed for corruption), publicly questioned how a woman of her renown could be grabbed off the street.
—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
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Support could founder, however, if the country is seen as a black hole for Western aid, adding further urgency to the anti-corruption campaign.
—David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2023
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In the first round of Guatemala’s presidential election on June 25, a relatively unknown anti-corruption candidate won enough votes to go through to the runoff.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
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The art installation was found by the financial and anti-corruption brigade of the judicial police department of the police, per CBS News.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 20 May 2025
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But Bernardo Arévalo, a centrist running on an anti-corruption platform, was in second with about 12 percent of the vote.
—Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 June 2023
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Last month, the autocratic Gulf state of Qatar handed out anti-corruption awards in partnership with the United Nations.
—Natalie Ecanow, National Review, 10 Dec. 2024
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And new research from the anti-corruption watchdog group Accountable.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
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Although, there is still much room for improvement in terms of female representation in the boardroom, and as far as anti-corruption and bribery are concerned.
—Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
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The following day, the FA was informed of an anti-corruption alert by integrity officials.
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025
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When it was upheld by Italy’s top criminal court in 2013, he was stripped of his Senate seat, and banned from public office for several years in keeping with anti-corruption laws.
—Frances D'emilio, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
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Street protests erupted around the country last month after Zelenskyy's government and the Ukrainian parliament approved a new law curtailing the independence of two key anti-corruption agencies.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2025
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An anti-corruption campaign launched by Xi shows no sign of letting up after more than a decade.
—ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
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