subverting

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D’Aquino’s defense: She had been slyly subverting the propaganda machine the whole time, entertaining Americans with facetious language no one could take seriously and introducing upbeat American music the GIs actually loved.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

It has the advantage of overlapping with and amusingly subverting the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” and the 1900 L. Frank Baum novel that inspired it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

"It has lots of what you loved about the first Squid Game, from 2021, but has little interest in surpassing, much less subverting, its predecessor".

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

From my courtside vantage point, it hardly felt like people were trying to draw attention to themselves, subverting my initial assumptions.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

Cool things going on with subverting trad, ideas of femininity etc.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner