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Noun
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The law aims to curb corruption and undue influence in federal campaigns.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025 -
The mayor has denied the allegations in the past, even after several DOJ officials resigned following the Trump administration’s move to drop the corruption charges.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
28 June 2025
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The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The document accused Jewish people of promoting white genocide and degeneracy.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
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That's a perversion of the separation of powers and the role of an independent Justice Department.—
Ryan Lucas,
NPR,
19 May 2025
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These opposition movements shared one common goal: exposing the fallacies of the communist perversion of truth.—
Andrew Nagorski,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Nov. 2012
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There’s a risk of indecency, certainly, but the boundary is subjective, and Bayern smashing 10 past Auckland was merely them completing a full day’s work.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Rodriguez was taken into custody without incident and transported to police headquarters where he was charged with breach of peace and public indecency.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
15 June 2025
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That’s because warming increases the rate of decay of falling organic debris, so that less of it reaches the twilight zone.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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Certainly not for novelty’s sake; we are hardly starved for dramas of mental decay, or for the stupendous feats of acting that are often achieved in their service.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
19 June 2025
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The film’s sheer, unrelenting squalor can wear you down, too.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
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Women gather together, all fully covered in the Islamic niqab, as hundreds of young children from strikingly diverse ethnic backgrounds wander through the squalor.—
Richard Engel,
NBC News,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2022
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A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions.—
Orange County Register,
Orange County Register,
1 Apr. 2017
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And so the depravity of the crime just shocks the conscience.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2025
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Animal Farm, published in 1945 as the Soviet Union was clamping its pincers on Eastern Europe, and 1948 – published at a time when Stalin had drawn the Iron Curtain between East and West – illustrate the moral depravity of the powerful who exert dominance over the powerless.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
16 May 2025
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