subversion
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Lee and Chow were charged with subversion crimes in 2021 and have been behind bars since, under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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
She explored similar themes of subversion in the movie “Hedda,” a moody remake of Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” with the title role reimagined as a bisexual, biracial woman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 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
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
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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