Example Sentences

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First, AI subverts the tech giants’ economies of scale by lowering the relatively high fixed costs of writing software, which had served as a protective moat for these companies.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

“Misericordia” subverts the long-held idea that gay coming-home movies equate to weepy melodramas.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025

But more often it supports rather than subverts the reality.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025

However the company had previously come out strongly against this kind of data collection, saying in a 2019 blog that fingerprinting "subverts user choice and is wrong."

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

The first sentence, which says that most Internet users go to news sites in their own country, subverts its attempt to express a resemblance relation in three ways.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker