subvert
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And as researchers work to build safeguards, AI has shown, in some scenarios, a willingness and capacity to subvert human authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
It was in part to this fear that George Mason referred when he insisted at the Constitutional Convention that any definition of impeachable conduct must cover “attempts to subvert the Constitution.”
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
The ruling said the court not exercising its powers in the case would send out the wrong signal to other public bodies, undermine the authority of the commissioner, and subvert the rule of law.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Critics of the bills say they subvert the rights of local communities.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
I should have known better than to think that I could subvert Ma’s indomitable will.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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The plot is simultaneously ingenious, preposterous and, in its ultimate phantasmagorical effect, not unlike Mr. Holland’s account of the reality Mr. Boyne so wantonly subverts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
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
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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
The prosecution argued that procedural rules of the committee were subverted, through secret messages before the meeting between the three defendants.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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
The stakes in Season 1 were very clear — get Ellie to where she can be used to make a cure — even if they were subverted in the end.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2025
They'd lied to us and subverted the judicial process.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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’s subverting expectations that you have of mothers and it’s subverting expectations of how you as an audience are going to feel while you watch it.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
The case involves an unprecedented catalogue of 115 allegations spread over 14 seasons, including multiple charges of subverting the regulations by failing to provide accurate financial information.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
Cool things going on with subverting trad, ideas of femininity etc.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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