subversion

Example Sentences

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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.

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They openly bragged of their subversion, hustling a slave out the back door as the slave catchers broke down the front.

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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.

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My father said, “That’s subversion and we don’t permit subversion here.”

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“At one time they were a mark of subversion, but now they're relics.”

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