subvert
verb (used with object)
to overthrow (something established or existing).
were subverting
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past progressiveof subvert.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It’s clear from watching Twin Peaks that Lynch and Frost were dedicated students of the primetime soap opera, and were drawing from its immense melodramatic pull as much as they were subverting it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2020
Yet here they were, subverting the very idea that nations can engage in anything more than Hobbesian competition and conflict.
From The New Yorker ● May 31, 2017
Having thought they were subverting the corporate music industry with In Rainbows, he now fears they were inadvertently playing into the hands of Apple and Google and the rest.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013
