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- noun Plural form of
subvert . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
subvert .
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Examples
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In this he again subverts a Boomer paradigm, of black victimology or black conservatism.
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In this he again subverts a Boomer paradigm, of black victimology or black conservatism.
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Slang subverts authority; dictionaries exist to be authoritative.
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Harry's Law, forces the question: when the way a particular writer "subverts"
TIME.com: Top Stories James Poniewozik 2011
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It will inevitably be said that Malouf's novel "subverts" or "undermines" the "Iliad," but his impressive knowledge of the epic's more abstruse themes and features and their subtle redeployment belie such a rote notion; "Ransom" disavows the flip free association often seen in the modern reshaping of Greek myth.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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It will inevitably be said that Malouf's novel "subverts" or "undermines" the "Iliad," but his impressive knowledge of the epic's more abstruse themes and features and their subtle redeployment belie such a rote notion; "Ransom" disavows the flip free association often seen in the modern reshaping of Greek myth.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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This trend is clearly contrary to any idea that religion is nowadays providing solace to the disinherited and dispossessed, or that higher education subverts religion.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Our "understanding, when it acts alone, and according to its most general principles, entirely subverts itself," he said, "and leaves not the lowest degree of evidence of any proposition, either in philosophy or common life."
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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Our "understanding, when it acts alone, and according to its most general principles, entirely subverts itself," he said, "and leaves not the lowest degree of evidence of any proposition, either in philosophy or common life."
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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In both cases, his response subverts the question, going deeper to challenge its basic assumptions.
Shane Claiborne: Give To Uncle Sam What Is Uncle Sam's: Tax Season War Resistance Shane Claiborne 2011
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