subversion

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

Officially they were convicted under the national-security law for inciting subversion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

Then in 2001, he was imprisoned for three years for "inciting subversion of state power".

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

He has done this right through the age of No Child Left Behind and of unyielding educational metrics, which seems to me an act of utter subversion and unwavering conviction of purpose.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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