subvert

Downs: We wanted to subvert what you’ve seen on TV before in terms of a manager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Critics of the bills say they subvert the rights of local communities.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

"The United States is under no obligation to admit or suffer the presence of individuals who subvert our laws and deny our citizens their constitutional rights," it added in a statement.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

These simple facts subvert conventional financial wisdom, which says the only stock exposure you need is in the broad indexes.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

Mother’s being a midwife would subvert the Medical Establishment, but in order to be a midwife she needed a phone.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

First, AI subverts the tech giants’ economies of scale by lowering the relatively high fixed costs of writing software, which had served as a protective moat for these companies.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

“Elections should be free from fraud or any other malfeasance that subverts the will of the people,” she added.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2026

The film may initially present Man-su as a sympathetic family man trying to make ends meet, but Lee quickly subverts those sentiments once Man-su’s methodical process betrays no sense of remorse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026

However the company had previously come out strongly against this kind of data collection, saying in a 2019 blog that fingerprinting "subverts user choice and is wrong."

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

The first sentence, which says that most Internet users go to news sites in their own country, subverts its attempt to express a resemblance relation in three ways.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Like Magritte's artwork, the Red Devils' qualifying campaign for the tournament certainly subverted expectations at times, with 6-0 wins over Liechtenstein and Kazakhstan sandwiched between draws against North Macedonia and Kazakhstan.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

In 1921, hoteliers in Atlantic City subverted that idea by creating their own revue of “bathing beauties,” held the week after Labor Day as a way to extend the summer season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

“Will & Grace” further subverted the gay bestie trope by assigning Will his own gay best friend, Sean Hayes’ Jack.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

It’ll be interesting to see how that affects how people see both Ellie and Abby moving forward and how our ideas around heroes and villains can be subverted through their trauma and rage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025

They'd lied to us and subverted the judicial process.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

It has the advantage of overlapping with and amusingly subverting the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” and the 1900 L. Frank Baum novel that inspired it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

He’s playing a character but also subverting our impression of him as an uncompromising, ultra-serious auteur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

"It has lots of what you loved about the first Squid Game, from 2021, but has little interest in surpassing, much less subverting, its predecessor".

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

From my courtside vantage point, it hardly felt like people were trying to draw attention to themselves, subverting my initial assumptions.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024

Cool things going on with subverting trad, ideas of femininity etc.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner