subversion

Au, detained in July 2025 and whose closed-door trial concluded in September in three days, was found guilty of "subversion against the political power of the State" among other offences, a court statement said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

In a period defined by government crackdowns on free speech, technological data mining and increasing 1st Amendment lawsuit filings, workshop attendees may use samizdat as a means of subversion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Officially they were convicted under the national-security law for inciting subversion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The 29-year-old Wong, one of the most recognisable faces of Hong Kong's now-quashed democracy movement, is already serving a nearly five-year sentence for subversion and was due to be released next year.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

They openly bragged of their subversion, hustling a slave out the back door as the slave catchers broke down the front.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

Her scents can be read as feminist subversions of the primacy of the visual in art and the Enlightenment’s celebration of the human brain as the seat of all intelligence.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

“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

Overturnings and subversions of this description are necessary to bring them to light.

From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo