Example Sentences

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There are many, many examples of how the victims’ rights movement has subverted the constitutional rights of criminal defendants.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2023

Inequality – in all its forms – has subverted the way our economy functions.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2019

There’s a bigger picture, and it’s how long Shalwitz’s Woolly has subverted conventions and cried out with civic purpose.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2018

But Cottonmouth has subverted and reclaimed it, using it as a way of challenging the damaging expectations put on his community.

From The Verge • Sep. 29, 2016

You will believe that calamity has subverted my reason, and that I am amusing you with the chimeras of my brain instead of facts that have really happened.

From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Hawthorne, Julian