corruptible

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Recent Examples of corruptible From fragmented records to corruptible datasets and the general noise across social media, agentic systems are facing a trust and truth crisis at the most fundamental level. Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Iran prefers weak allies over strong ones, and corrupt and corruptible governments over ones that respond to their citizens’ needs. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corruptible
Adjective
  • In one of many tonally jarring subplots, Vince works out a scam to burn down his dead mother’s house in Brooklyn to collect the insurance money with the help of a corrupt fire marshal.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The writer became inspired to counteract his complicity in a corrupt system.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Backups can become corrupted over time and be useless if this happens.
    Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Signalis’s radio-receiver module is reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid’s radio conversations, and players will need to utilize it to unlock safes and fight against corrupted enemies.
    George Yang, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Berger and Nina Gold cast Tilda Swinton as Cynthia Blithe, the private investigator who tracks him, laser like, to China, with Fala Chen playing Dao Ming, the savvy hostess who sees something behind Doyle’s desperate tactics, and Alex Jennings as an expat of the most venal variety.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership?
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • For both areas, Painter hit the transfer portal and landed a dirty-work center in Cluff.
    CJ Moore, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Far from a knightly war, the German advance in 1941-1942 against France was a dirty one, with thieving of private property and menace against civilians.
    Christopher C. Gorham September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Most playoff games are often decided by big moments and managerial decisions, not crooked numbers and tired relievers.
    Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The show, which followed a crooked New Mexican lawyer, played by Bob Odenkirk, was an archly funny drama, shot partly in gritty black-and-white.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Black and his co-writers soften the cold mercenary side of Parker by giving him something of a moral compass, which prompts him to toss $10,000 to the stranger’s wife before fleeing the scene.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Back when Dragon Ball Z was turning more Western audiences into anime fans, Berserk brought the tale of Guts and his mercenary adventures to startling life.
    Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, the Home Buyer Scarcity Index, which measures how crunched an area is for purchasable homes, has spiked.
    Nigel Chiwaya, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
  • For example, in Colorado, Utah and West Virginia, only soft drinks and/or soda would no longer be purchasable with SNAP.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Corruptible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corruptible. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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