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How to use the word TAINTED in a Sentence?

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They worked in teams, most officers on the team participated in an arrest, so if all the people are going to be on a Scorpion team, I think it could be hard for the [district attorney] to piece that case back together once it’s been tainted by the Scorpion [unit].

Tyre Nichols

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today the court actually ruled that the elections are meaningless. The court’s decision is political and tainted.

The Sephardi religious party

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a world market, we have to compete more for the non-tainted Russian oil that's available.

Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The mailbox is the symbol of Amazon's abuse of power. Many of my coworkers don't even trust the mail ballot process because of how much Amazon tainted the process during the first election.

Jennifer Bates

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What the Steele dossier does is it reflects the fevered pitch of the moment. The left was terrified about Donald Trump, they were terrified about what a Donald Trump presidency could do. So they grasped for anything that they could, it allowed them to provide a narrative to how Donald Trump was being unfairly tainted by this.

Reporter Michael Schmidt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The fruit on the vines are going to be left to rot, they are smoke-tainted.

Sonoma County Supervisor Susan Gorin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This prosecution was flawed from the beginning and was tainted throughout by racial discrimination. It should never have occurred and lasted far too long, but we are glad it is finally over.

Rob McDuff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I disagree that her current role has tainted her reputation.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

C. P. Scott

added by Normando
4 years ago

We as a nation have not yet truly acknowledged and grappled with racism and white supremacy that has tainted this countrys founding, it continues to persist in those deep racial disparities and inequalities today.

Cory Booker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It is unfortunate that the event at the community center has tainted the success our seniors and football team felt, but we love our Blue Devil Family and will continue to pray for wisdom and healing.

Dennis Fuqua

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Love is often described as a fruit you can just reach out with your hand and pluck. However, one should beware, that although glowing in color, the fruit is often tainted or rotten.

RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
5 years ago

It certainly was a tainted election, the people of North Carolina deserve a fair election.

Elections Board Chairman Bob Cordle

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We reject the notion in the media that any contract with a Papua New Guinea entity is tainted by corruption – we find this notion offensive, we do not have any bad debts or failed contracts.

Ian Stewart

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The source material were my memories, but then the film took on its own life, now my memories are tainted by the film.

Alfonso Cuaron

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I believe that( Kavanaugh's) nomination is going to be tainted. It will be stained by a badly broken process that has shattered the norm and broken the tradition Senate Judiciary.

Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The questions raised deserve answers that are conclusive and based on evidence. Without those answers, innocent men may be tainted by false accusation and the guilty may be left to repeat sins of the past.

Daniel DiNardo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a moral catastrophe, it is also part of this catastrophe that so many faithful priests who are pursuing holiness and serving with integrity are tainted by this failure. We firmly resolve, with the help of God's grace, never to repeat it.

Daniel DiNardo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Only the people with a lotta money could afford to buy the pills, so the people without so much money, they couldn't afford to buy the pills. So rather than just walk away from the drug, they switched to heroin. Heroin had gotten better. Heroin had gotten cheaper. Heroin had gotten easier to acquire here in Texas. Andthen the heroin started gettin' tainted with a drug called fentanyl. Not only have we seen an uptick in heroin use, we've seen a marked uptick in deaths due to the tainted heroin.

Mike Leath

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

That means anyone could have access to the phones, so anything could happen to the phones, all those messages they said were found in the phones may not be genuine or the phones may be tainted.

Khin Maung Zaw

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We've got to focus on bringing civility and respect back, and as much as I would like to do it from the pulpit of the Congress, I would be tainted with having an agenda that would suit a particular group, this way I can do it in a fashion that I think reinstates the fundamentals of our democracy that require some respect and some decorum.

Dennis Ross

Found on CNN
6 years ago

DOJ investigations must not be tainted by individuals imposing their own political prejudices.

Rod Rosenstein

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They’re morally tainted, i mean, there’s just no question about that.

Steve Roberts

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is not the ultimate solution, we still need new infrastructure, replacing the lead-tainted pipes in the city remains my top priority.

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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