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are subverting

  • present progressive
    of subvert.
    subvert
    verb (used with object)
    to overthrow (something established or existing).

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Younger folks are subverting traditional expectations through an embrace of their own identities in what we used to think of as traditional corporate environments.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2024

These children are subverting stereotypes—but not because they are “disciplined achievers” or “prodigies” or whatever term laden with respectability politics that adults keep ascribing to them.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2018

You are subverting the process and our will.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2010

Indeed, just about everywhere, restaurants and cooking schools dedicated to those al dente squares and rounds and ribbons of pearly paste are subverting meat-and-taters America.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were presided over by the most serious friar of their order, but the bold acts of the youthful friars at every juncture violated the rules of obedience, which they certainly are subverting.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson