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What: A Spotify podcast hosted by Meghan, who said she intended to “dissect, explore, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It was in part to this fear that George Mason referred when he insisted at the Constitutional Convention that any definition of impeachable conduct must cover “attempts to subvert the Constitution.”

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

“You want to make it feel real, but you also want to subvert it. You need to think: ‘We’re following his rise,’” says Kanin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The ruling said the court not exercising its powers in the case would send out the wrong signal to other public bodies, undermine the authority of the commissioner, and subvert the rule of law.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

He’s my friend, and this is my way to defy the Capitol, to subvert its terrible Games.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

The plot is simultaneously ingenious, preposterous and, in its ultimate phantasmagorical effect, not unlike Mr. Holland’s account of the reality Mr. Boyne so wantonly subverts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

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

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

“Up All Night” is filled with examples of how nightclubs subverted social hierarchies and thrived in opposition to mainstream culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Sentencing, Lord Arthurson said each of the men were "self-serving, arrogant and mendacious", adding they had "subverted public trust in NHS management".

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

It’ll be interesting to see how that affects how people see both Ellie and Abby moving forward and how our ideas around heroes and villains can be subverted through their trauma and rage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025

Some collaborated, some left, some resisted, some subverted and some just tried to get by.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

They'd lied to us and subverted the judicial process.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

D’Aquino’s defense: She had been slyly subverting the propaganda machine the whole time, entertaining Americans with facetious language no one could take seriously and introducing upbeat American music the GIs actually loved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

It has the advantage of overlapping with and amusingly subverting the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” and the 1900 L. Frank Baum novel that inspired it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

Redford, the picture of a classic cowboy and blonde heartthrob, was no stranger to subverting expectations in his work onscreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025

“It’s subverting expectations that you have of mothers and it’s subverting expectations of how you as an audience are going to feel while you watch it.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

Cool things going on with subverting trad, ideas of femininity etc.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner