subversion
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Dong was eventually jailed for "inciting subversion" and "crossing the national border illegally".
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
In 2019, pastor Wang Yi was sentenced to nine years in prison for incitement of subversion of state power and illegal business operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Perversely, it’s times like these, when subversion and subtlety are required, that creativity flourishes.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Think subversion through infiltration — or revolution through stealth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
He has done this right through the age of No Child Left Behind and of unyielding educational metrics, which seems to me an act of utter subversion and unwavering conviction of purpose.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
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
The German Emperor's departure from Venice was a master-stroke of scenic effects, one of those subversions of history, to which the eccentric monarch of Berlin is so passionately addicted.
From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Adam, Juliette
Vocabulary lists containing subversion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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