subversion
noun
an act or instance of subverting.
subversions
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pluralof subversion.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This being Disney, of course, we’re quite a long way from, say, the family-unfriendly subversions of “I Love You Phillip Morris,” Ficarra and Requa’s joyous 2010 comedy of queer awakening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
“You are a punk among punks, a subversion of rules that themselves are subversions of yet other rules.”
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2021
How can a decentralized movement that welcomes strangers guard against such subversions?
From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2021
The script, an ingenious concoction of familiar tropes and subversions thereof, gave humanity five years until an unfriendly alien species crash-landing in 2015 has laid claim to most of continental Europe.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2020
The German Emperor's departure from Venice was a master-stroke of scenic effects, one of those subversions of history, to which the eccentric monarch of Berlin is so passionately addicted.
From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam
