subversion
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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
Dong was eventually jailed for "inciting subversion" and "crossing the national border illegally".
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
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
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
There are no profound psychological struggles, high-concept theatrics; no groundbreaking subversions of formula.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 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
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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