subvert
verb (used with object)
to overthrow (something established or existing).
will subvert
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future tenseof subvert.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The familiar trope sets expectations the film will subvert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
While Yazidi’s religious authorities have announced that they will subvert their ancient traditions and accept the babies as Yazidis, the matter is further complicated by Baghdad’s law that children must take the paternal religion.
From Fox News ● Sep. 11, 2019
From the get-go, then, it’s obvious that “The Sisters Brothers” will subvert typical western spectacle even as it indulges it.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2018
While approving of the legitimate aims of Afrocentrism, many educators, both black and white, are concerned that its excesses will subvert the very goals it seeks to accomplish.
From Time Magazine Archive
It always has been, and always will be, that force must either suppress reason or reason will subvert force.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
