subversive

A subversive, funny new show: HBO’s new Sunday night series Lanterns is the spiritual successor to Watchmen: a superhero show for people who don’t think they like superhero shows.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

His pictures, deemed subversive, were stripped from German museums, and he and his family fled to Switzerland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

It alleges French support for "subversive networks and an intent to marginalise" Burkina Faso on the international stage.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

These movies swung for the fences to prove that all is not yet lost — an idea that, in itself, can feel subversive.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

For a long time there had been rumours—circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy—that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

In June of 1952, McCarran teamed with a new assistant attorney general — the driven, young, slightly built, and prematurely balding Roy Cohn — to look into suspected subversives at the U.N.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023

These Super Glue subversives have been derided as publicity-seeking Philistines and hailed as martyrs for a vital cause.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

A mission to find subversives within San Francisco’s Chinese community has far-reaching consequences for an FBI agent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2020

Obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the F.B.I. files in this collection monitor writers considered by the government to have been subversives.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2018

"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau