subversion
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Au, detained in July 2025 and whose closed-door trial concluded in September in three days, was found guilty of "subversion against the political power of the State" among other offences, a court statement said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Wong was still serving his 56-month sentence for the subversion conviction when he was charged with collusion under the NSL last year.
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
In a period defined by government crackdowns on free speech, technological data mining and increasing 1st Amendment lawsuit filings, workshop attendees may use samizdat as a means of subversion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
They openly bragged of their subversion, hustling a slave out the back door as the slave catchers broke down the front.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
But as always with sly fairy tale subversions, “happily ever after” wasn’t quite the end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Her scents can be read as feminist subversions of the primacy of the visual in art and the Enlightenment’s celebration of the human brain as the seat of all intelligence.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
“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 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
Vocabulary lists containing subversion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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