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subversion

[suhb-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn] / səbˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən /
NOUN
ruin
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NOUN
undermining
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The 29-year-old Wong, one of the most recognisable faces of Hong Kong's now-quashed democracy movement, is already serving a nearly five-year sentence for subversion and was due to be released next year.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

A Hong Kong court convicted activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan of inciting subversion under the territory’s national security law.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Then in 2001, he was imprisoned for three years for "inciting subversion of state power".

From BBC May 27, 2026

“Making space for subversion and resistance is at the core of what this band is about,” she continued.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 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

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

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 Juliette Adam




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