subversives
Example Sentences
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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
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
As Louis frames it, family is the template for, and the creature of, the state, with its brutal leadership, its sycophantic enablers, its goons and its subversives.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2022
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
