as in incentive
something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decision
that judge refused a huge bribe to dismiss the charges against the wealthy defendant
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as in to lure
to influence someone with a bribe
meat inspectors were bribed, and the contaminated beef was sold to the public
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Recent Examples of bribe
Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Alleged bribes, gifts Meanwhile, the indictment alleges that Bradley accepted gifts and bribes from tow truck companies.
—Drew Pittock, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026
Cameron Scott Jared Mayo, who is facing charges for sodomizing an 8-year-old girl, tried to bribe the girl's mother with a house to drop the charges in January, a Virginia prosecutor alleged.
—Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
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Noun
Subscribe now The people were accused of having paid Indian government officials more than $250 million in bribes to obtain solar energy supply contracts worth more than $2 billion in profits.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Alleged bribes, gifts Meanwhile, the indictment alleges that Bradley accepted gifts and bribes from tow truck companies.
—Drew Pittock, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Verb
Both Zervas and Ziogas have both pleaded guilty to bribing Diamantis.
—Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026
Cameron Scott Jared Mayo, who is facing charges for sodomizing an 8-year-old girl, tried to bribe the girl's mother with a house to drop the charges in January, a Virginia prosecutor alleged.
—Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bribe
Noun
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House members who occupy safe seats have fewer incentives to compromise or work across the aisle.—
Ashley Wu,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Provincial incentives can be stacked with the federal rebate to a bonus tax credit rate of 45 percent — a significant lever in an era when every greenlight is being scrutinized.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
Verb
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In some cases, the clipping agencies might have launched them on their own to lure prospective clients or astroturf themselves.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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There’s a particularly tragic scene where Natalia, lured on holiday by Elsa, spots a small child innocently giggling at the table across from her at dinner.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
Noun
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There are books on everything from how to leverage dopamine for dressing well to dressmaking, from how to deploy dopamine fixes for weight loss to rewiring our brain’s dopamine to achieve athletic success.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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Maintain your home as a haven from summertime humidity and prevent potential problems with simple tricks and fixes.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
13 May 2026
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Rai’s father, Amrik Singh, bought his son a set of Titleist 690 MB irons when the latter was still a child, worth nearly 1,000 pounds — money that the working-class Rai family didn’t exactly have.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Among them is Cai Youcheng, a 36-year-old graphic designer in Beijing who has set aside plans to buy for now.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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Renter Mandy Feng, who prefers to use a pseudonym for fear of being seen criticizing the authorities, said the stimulus the government is offering has failed to offset people’s anxiety over an uncertain economic outlook.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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Perhaps sensing this, the league trotted out a series of onstage stimuli between picks.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Verb
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Picture yourself in a boat on the Riviera… Most rock superstars have been seduced by the glamor of the Cannes Film Festival at some point in their career.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
16 May 2026
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This is her chance to seduce the audience as well as her onscreen co-star Callum Turner.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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That anticlimax proved enduring motivation for son Clark, now the chairman of the Chiefs.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 May 2026
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Most organizations continue to approach performance through the lens of the individual, focusing on motivation or endurance, while overlooking the structural conditions that quietly determine how people function over time.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
Verb
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Lifting the interest rates paid for deposits that banks park at the Fed would entice lenders to divert dollars from checking and savings accounts to the Central Bank, curbing the loan portfolios that fuel expenditures across the economy.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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But to get there, Kalshi and Polymarket need to entice market-makers like Citadel Securities and Jane Street to take the other side of whatever bet these platforms’ vibe-surfing users want to make.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
19 May 2026
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“Bribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bribe. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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