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
Although the logo is meant to be subversive and ironic, Tampa fans took it as a cue and started to chant “USA! USA!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Hundreds of black clergymen, journalists, civil rights activists, teachers, lawyers, students and anyone suspected of subversive acts had been detained.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
In the authorities’ war against perceived subversives, it would be years before it became clear how brazenly they had cheated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
In June of 1952, McCarran teamed with a new assistant attorney general — the driven, young, slightly built, and prematurely balding Roy Cohn — to look into suspected subversives at the U.N.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023
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
"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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