How to Use subversion in a Sentence

subversion

noun

• 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
• The purity of art as a way of life, as a way of creating a world around you, and as a means of subversion.
  — Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
• That’s where the next layer of electoral subversion comes in.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
• The Crown, like the sitcoms, engages in subtle acts of genre subversion.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Now, the six former members of the startup reached a settlement with the Premier League for their subversion.
  — Christian Ortega, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
• Where Ocean’s Eleven was all smooth style, Ocean’s Twelve is a knowing subversion that lays bare the ridiculous fallacy of movie-star charm.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2020
• How will terms like subversion be defined, and how broadly?
  — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 5 June 2020
• No, there’s an edge of hostility or subversion to irony which isn’t present in the kind of pantomime atmosphere on the Last Night.
  — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
• The Birmingham via Huntsville duo wraps fire-bomb subversion in radio-kiss melody and whoa-dude raw-power.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2020
• He was later convicted of subversion and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  — Matthew Lee, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• But Thompson has noted how even kitsch and subversion has become cliché.
  — CNN, 7 May 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
• The playwright, performance artist, and sprite Taylor Mac (above) does holiday cheer with a twist of subversion.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Because these are agents that were critical to his sustained campaign of subversion against us.
  — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2020
• There is deconstruction of the heraldic myth without the author falling prey to easy platitudes, and without the kind of too-easy subversion that risks shattering the myth entirely.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• In Trump’s federal election subversion case, Smith filed a massive court filing last month laying out the framework of the future of his case within the new confines of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.
  — Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024