subversive
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Just for a moment, I wanted to join the badass gang that made subversive movies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Her Guardian colleague Rhik Samadder enjoys the "subversive" nature of The Muppets however, and the show-within-a-show.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Models Bella Hadid and Loli Bahia have also sported them with boyish style, adopting a long-standing tradition of wearing the necktie as a subversive projection of women's equal rights.
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
So after faculty were urged to add land acknowledgments to their syllabi, Mr. Reges had a subversive idea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
A handful of other men were also interested, and the questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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