subversion

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

Then in 2001, he was imprisoned for three years for "inciting subversion of state power".

From BBC ● May 27, 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

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

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

The script, an ingenious concoction of familiar tropes and subversions thereof, gave humanity five years until an unfriendly alien species crash-landing in 2015 has laid claim to most of continental Europe.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2020

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

From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo