subverter

noun

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as in traitor

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  1. traitor
  2. collaborator
  3. sellout
  4. turncoat
  5. quisling
  6. conspirator
  7. Judas
  8. accommodationist
Noun
  • Cumming will lead a new group of 21 traitors from across a variety of other reality series.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • He is now considered one of America’s worst traitors.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of traitor
Noun
  • Jones’s signature collaborator was Michael Jackson.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Glasper uses these shows to showcase the catalog of his collaborators and add a live, band-centric flair to the jams that everyone already loves.
    William E. Ketchum III, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of collaborator
Noun
  • That track appears to have hit a sweet spot as the crowd for the Xfinity 500 will be close to a sellout.
    Bruce Martin, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • As Kurt explains, a lot of that growth has come from Sun Belt teams that were once viewed as struggling properties but have since found a formula for success—and sellouts.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of sellout
Noun
  • For instance, the story of Armand, the accidental turncoat semi-ex-mafia guy played by Max Casella, could easily have come from either of the crime masterpieces Winter worked on.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
  • With a turncoat on the loose among the agents, time is of the essence to root out the loose cannon before they, ahem, fire.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of turncoat
Noun
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
Definition of quisling
Noun
  • The foiling of the plot is now celebrated with fireworks, bonfires, and the burning of effigies of Guy Fawkes—all to symbolize the capture and punishment of the conspirators.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Beginning in December 2020, Rhodes and other conspirators plotted to stop Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election, the prosecutors alleged.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of conspirator
Noun
  • But with this show, Wolfram's classmates at the all-girl Catholic high school will take on the roles of Pontius Pilate, King Harrod, and the Apostles in the story of the last seven days of Jesus’s life, as told through the eyes of his betrayer, Judas Iscariot.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Gaga retells the story of Judas Iscariot through the eyes of a Mary Magdalene torn between Jesus and Judas, love and temptation, aggressive verses and dazzling melodic choruses.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of Judas
Noun
  • Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.
    Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022
  • Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
    Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
Definition of accommodationist
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