subversive
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A subversive, funny new show: HBO’s new Sunday night series Lanterns is the spiritual successor to Watchmen: a superhero show for people who don’t think they like superhero shows.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Even though they never worked together, Highsmith, like Hitchcock, was captivated by the subversive and the clandestine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It alleges French support for "subversive networks and an intent to marginalise" Burkina Faso on the international stage.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
“This feels like a Robin that lived in me for a long time,” the director says of his subversive take.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
My loyalty to Mr. Smeath is similar to my loyalty to my brother both are on the side of ox eyeballs, toe jam under the microscope, the outrageous, the subversive.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
These Super Glue subversives have been derided as publicity-seeking Philistines and hailed as martyrs for a vital cause.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
Others said they were former or current members, but even so, it did not make them antigovernment subversives.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2020
A mission to find subversives within San Francisco’s Chinese community has far-reaching consequences for an FBI agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
Americans worked themselves into a tizzy over the putative threat posed by small numbers of homegrown subversives.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2018
"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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