subversion
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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
He was released in June after spending more than five years in prison for subversion and other convictions.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Making space for subversion and resistance is at the core of what this band is about,” she continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
It’s an argument that Superman’s golly gee spirit is his greatest asset, no subversion necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
My father said, “That’s subversion and we don’t permit subversion here.”
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
But as always with sly fairy tale subversions, “happily ever after” wasn’t quite the end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 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
They aren’t new stories so much as alternate ones — subversions of the official story, secret histories, gnostic texts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
Few things are more trying than the world's remorseless intrusion upon one's privacy, and subversions of plans which one has laid, not for himself alone.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
Vocabulary lists containing subversion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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