subversion

Au was convicted of subversion and other offences, and sentenced on Friday to 12-and-a-half years in jail in the former Portuguese colony, which reverted to China in 1999.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

He noted that Morrissey’s malaise mirrors the sentiment of many ranchera songs, also citing that his effeminate onstage persona is a perfect subversion of Mexican machismo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

In a 15-minute address, Pezeshkian denied that the nation seeks nuclear weapons and called the attacks “a grave betrayal of diplomacy and subversion of efforts towards the establishment of stability and peace.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

That day, however, as Mary Jackson ran into Kazimierz Czarnecki on the west side of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, there was no turning inward, no subversion, and no dissembling.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

This being Disney, of course, we’re quite a long way from, say, the family-unfriendly subversions of “I Love You Phillip Morris,” Ficarra and Requa’s joyous 2010 comedy of queer awakening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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

Overturnings and subversions of this description are necessary to bring them to light.

From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo