subversion
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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
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
A Hong Kong court convicted activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan of inciting subversion under the territory’s national security law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“At one time they were a mark of subversion, but now they're relics.”
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
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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