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subversion

[suhb-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn] / səbˈvɜr ʒən, -ʃən /
NOUN
ruin
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NOUN
undermining
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Subversion, Chandler argued, “whether of the left or right, is still subversion.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

Subversion carries a maximum term of life imprisonment and it’s unclear if a guilty plea warrants a reduced sentence under the NSL.

From BBC • May 30, 2024

Subversion was in the form of less musical dissonance and less density, more freedom, more harmonies, more play.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2022

Greg Miller is national security correspondent for The Washington Post, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019

Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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