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subversion

[suhb-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn] / səbˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən /
NOUN
ruin
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NOUN
undermining
Synonyms


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Dong was eventually jailed for "inciting subversion" and "crossing the national border illegally".

From BBC May 27, 2026

LLMs resist this architecture because the subversion happens inside private conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

Perversely, it’s times like these, when subversion and subtlety are required, that creativity flourishes.

From Salon Jan. 1, 2026

Think subversion through infiltration — or revolution through stealth.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2025

“At one time they were a mark of subversion, but now they're relics.”

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His reach goes beyond that, though: Acts such as Lil Uzi Vert, Juice Wrld and Lil Nas X absorbed his radical aesthetics and peacocking subversions, taking them to pop radio and the Grammy stage.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2022

“You are a punk among punks, a subversion of rules that themselves are subversions of yet other rules.”

From Washington Post May 12, 2021

How can a decentralized movement that welcomes strangers guard against such subversions?

From Scientific American Feb. 3, 2021

But “Columbo” eschews both the genre’s traditional clichés and the subversions of those clichés — which are themselves, by now, conventional.

From New York Times Jul. 24, 2020

The German Emperor's departure from Venice was a master-stroke of scenic effects, one of those subversions of history, to which the eccentric monarch of Berlin is so passionately addicted.

From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Adam, Juliette




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