subversion
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Then in 2001, he was imprisoned for three years for "inciting subversion of state power".
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Perversely, it’s times like these, when subversion and subtlety are required, that creativity flourishes.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
The chatbot must refuse to answer at least 95% of prompts designed to trigger responses leading to subversion of state power or discrimination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Think subversion through infiltration — or revolution through stealth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
They openly bragged of their subversion, hustling a slave out the back door as the slave catchers broke down the front.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
Overturnings and subversions of this description are necessary to bring them to light.
From Napoleon the Little by Hugo, Victor
Vocabulary lists containing subversion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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