- present participle of subvert.
subverting
Example Sentences
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Subverting more mainstream appearances on everything from “Last Comic Standing” to Kimmel, Corden and Oprah, Kilmartin’s 2016 hour special “45 Jokes About My Dead Dad” discussed cancer, hospice care and grief.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024
Subverting a term from the tech guru Kevin Kelly, she developed the "protopia futures" framework, which proposes a regenerative and inclusive vision for the future as an alternative to the utopia-dystopia binary.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2023
The Miskatonic course calendar would look at home in any film studies curriculum; its next class, on Feb. 13, is called “Black Horror: The Revolutionary Act of Subverting the White Gaze.”
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2018
Subverting the convention, WikiLink suggests a meet cute from the closing scene of 500 Days Of Summer.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013
Subverting a Showgirls or a Reefer Madness is an established route.
From BBC • May 3, 2010
