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"Other than the moments after action is called, when you feel like you're actually in someone else's body, the most exciting part of my job is subverting expectations," Lynskey said.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2023

Through Key to Change and all of Morris’ work, he is subverting what students and the community think of when they think of classical music.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022

The appeal is subverting the sugarcoated things they were told as children.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021

“It is subverting the original use of the cameras,” he said.

From New York Times • May 28, 2017

To recur then to such a principle as that local interests must be disregarded, is requiring of one man to do more than another, and is subverting the foundation of a free government.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester