subversion
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Au was convicted of subversion and other offences, and sentenced on Friday to 12-and-a-half years in jail in the former Portuguese colony, which reverted to China in 1999.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
Wong is already serving time for subversion and was due to be freed early next year when he was handed the latest charges, which he has pleaded guilty to earlier in September.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
He devoted three sentences to Iran, none of them mentioning terrorism or domestic subversion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
He noted that Morrissey’s malaise mirrors the sentiment of many ranchera songs, also citing that his effeminate onstage persona is a perfect subversion of Mexican machismo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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
This being Disney, of course, we’re quite a long way from, say, the family-unfriendly subversions of “I Love You Phillip Morris,” Ficarra and Requa’s joyous 2010 comedy of queer awakening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing subversion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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