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also corruptor
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Recent Examples of corrupter
Sarah Snook cartwheeled through 26 roles — from the beautiful and doomed protagonist to his oily, eloquent corruptor, Lord Henry, to the tragically self-sabotaging actress Sibyl Vane — without, seemingly, losing her breath or putting a single curl on Dorian’s golden head out of place.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corrupter
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There’s no word on ICE having a special decoder ring that tracks only the criminals.—
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Houser said that because the majority of Americans support removing serious criminals, the White House muddies the waters in an effort to maintain support for mass deportations.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
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Barraza, who was a member of the 501st Legion, a fan group that painstakingly re-creates Star Wars villains' costumes, already had her new suitcases packed — which resembled the ones Harry Potter took with him to Hogwarts.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
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To see him as a criminal, a perpetrator and villain, was a cognitive dissonance that demanded our attention.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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That rogues’ gallery includes such reprobates as Maura Healey, the fake Indian, Ed Markey, Seth Moulton, crackpot leftist Juliette Kayyem… Percentage of contribution Summers made to Democrats: 100 percent.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Nov. 2025
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Unlike Vegas with its cast of reprobates and wackos, this joint is classy and clean and just a wee bit indulgent.—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Despite the wholesale change in how California sentences juvenile offenders, outrage over the crime has not faded.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, the Associated Press reported that inmates at a Virginia facility that predominantly holds mentally ill offenders were hospitalized for hypothermia at least 13 times over the course of three years.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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Jeff Hoffman has been both a carrying force and anxiety inducer at times this year.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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To commit the killings, the doctor allegedly administered an anesthetic inducer and a muscle relaxant to his patients without their knowledge or consent, according to prosecutors.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The world of city courts was upended in late December, when the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that municipalities cannot impose harsher punishments on lawbreakers than state statute would allow for the same offense.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2026
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Bondi met in Washington with the lawbreaker and his fiancé a few days later.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
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One suspect who was arrested a month after the incident, Joseph Allen Davis, pleaded guilty in federal court late last year to being a felon in possession of a firearm and is scheduled to be sentenced March 26.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Thomas Clegg, 42, pleaded guilty in May 2025 to being a felon in possession of a firearm, Ketchmark said.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Corrupter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corrupter. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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