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Critics of the bills say they subvert the rights of local communities.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

"The United States is under no obligation to admit or suffer the presence of individuals who subvert our laws and deny our citizens their constitutional rights," it added in a statement.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

“The ‘Burbs” sets out to subvert expectations, and that also applies to the way it deals with Samira’s race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026

Even if, by some miracle, Good’s and Pretti’s killers are eventually brought to justice, their individual consequences do nothing to subvert ICE’s mandate of force wherever it appears.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

He’s my friend, and this is my way to defy the Capitol, to subvert its terrible Games.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

First, AI subverts the tech giants’ economies of scale by lowering the relatively high fixed costs of writing software, which had served as a protective moat for these companies.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

However the company had previously come out strongly against this kind of data collection, saying in a 2019 blog that fingerprinting "subverts user choice and is wrong."

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

I’m here to champion a work of art that centers a transgender woman in the lead role, to make the case for thought-provoking cinema that subverts tropes by radically embracing them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

In his emphasis on the gap between our surface words or actions and their deeper psychological meanings or feelings, Jung would probably say that irony questions and subverts normative cultural narratives.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

It means that when “the same hands” control more than one branch of government, the fundamental principles of a free Constitution are subverted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The series offered a look at Mormon moms in Utah that subverted viewers’ expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

Sentencing, Lord Arthurson said each of the men were "self-serving, arrogant and mendacious", adding they had "subverted public trust in NHS management".

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

Some collaborated, some left, some resisted, some subverted and some just tried to get by.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

They'd lied to us and subverted the judicial process.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The removals were dubious from a legal standpoint, subverting due process and legal proceedings linked to extradition treaties signed by Mexico, say lawyers, security analysts and former officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

Redford, the picture of a classic cowboy and blonde heartthrob, was no stranger to subverting expectations in his work onscreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025

He’s playing a character but also subverting our impression of him as an uncompromising, ultra-serious auteur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

“It’s subverting expectations that you have of mothers and it’s subverting expectations of how you as an audience are going to feel while you watch it.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

Cool things going on with subverting trad, ideas of femininity etc.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner