Example Sentences

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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

It is to perpetuate the abuses which are subverting the fabric of your empire, that the motion is opposed.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund