How to Use subversion in a Sentence

subversion

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  • In a way this film is a reaction to, or a subversion of that.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But the other thing that is really cool is the subversion of that idea.
    — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022
  • That’s where the next layer of electoral subversion comes in.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • But a lot of it was subversion, trying to set up expectations of what should the present day Asian tong be like?
    — Caroline Brew, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The phone number is a hotline for reporting subversion to the MSS.
    — Haruka Sakaguchi, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, there's still plenty of subversion going on.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There are a couple of instances of subversion, moments when Your Place or Mine winks and pokes fun at itself.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Willis has set a deadline of noon on Friday for the people indicted last week in the election subversion case to turn themselves in.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The subversion comes from the direction Tindle wanted to take this story.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That alertness has just as much to do with subversion as celebration, if not more.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • However, Yarovesky insists that the prospect of another Brightburn-style subversion isn’t what drew him to the project.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • No law can completely stop the risk of subversion after an election.
    — Derek T. Muller, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
  • Bombshell beauty was on the menu this week, with looks defined by bold details born of confidence and subversion.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 18 June 2023
  • In August, a woman was charged with threatening to kill Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversees the 2020 election subversion case.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • There are jokes that attempt genre subversion on the most superficial of levels.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Outkast’s Stankonia cover featured a black-and-white flag as a symbol of subversion.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Trump hired Sadow to represent him in the Georgia election subversion case.
    — Richard Lardner, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • By contrast, Persuasion seems to think its best strength is its wild subversion of the author’s steady narration.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
  • And the New York case, like the Georgia election subversion case, was brought by a local prosecutor who does not answer to the president.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • Even those that do show Sophia engaged in domestic activities do so with a note of subversion.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
  • He was eventually accused of subversion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
    — Sarah Dilorenzo, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022
  • His success, then, is also its own contradiction: Owens has made subversion covetable; his clothes, meant for the shunned, have been embraced as well by those who’d do the shunning.
    — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The law figures in two of the federal charges against Mr. Trump in his election subversion case, and more than 350 people who stormed the Capitol have been prosecuted under it.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But clothing is never just a piece of fabric, and the subversion in claiming that innermost men’s garment is an essential part of the message.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Wanda will be the villain, and that’s probably the kind of expectations subversion that Sam Raimi teases in the featurette.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This week's episode of Atlanta takes its typical pop culture commentary to a new level of subversion.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 6 May 2022
  • Gitlow’s name is a harsh pun: His particular role — both in Purlie’s scheme and in his own daily life for reasons of subversion and survival — is to dance attendance on Ol’ Cap’n.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024
  • Not every topic lends itself to a subversion, or to showing off how little one cares about propriety.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
  • With a pinch of subversion, Shelf literalizes an old idea, the separation of mind from body, and a more recent one, the commodification of the artist.
    — David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • However, Smith’s 2020 election subversion case is not an impossible one to bring to trial before the election.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 June 2024

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