subversion
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A court in the Chinese territory Macau sentenced on Friday ex-lawmaker and democracy campaigner Au Kam San to 12 years and six months in prison for subversion and other offences.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
While still in prison in February 2021, Wong was among 47 people charged with "conspiracy to commit subversion".
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
When the war was over, while Colonel Aureliano Buendía was sneaking about through the narrow trails of permanent subversion, General Moncada was named magistrate of Macondo.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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His reach goes beyond that, though: Acts such as Lil Uzi Vert, Juice Wrld and Lil Nas X absorbed his radical aesthetics and peacocking subversions, taking them to pop radio and the Grammy stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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
Few things are more trying than the world's remorseless intrusion upon one's privacy, and subversions of plans which one has laid, not for himself alone.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
Vocabulary lists containing subversion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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