subverting

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Subverting more mainstream appearances on everything from “Last Comic Standing” to Kimmel, Corden and Oprah, Kilmartin’s 2016 hour special “45 Jokes About My Dead Dad” discussed cancer, hospice care and grief.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Subverting a term from the tech guru Kevin Kelly, she developed the "protopia futures" framework, which proposes a regenerative and inclusive vision for the future as an alternative to the utopia-dystopia binary.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2023

On this day, he knows he will draw the wrath of Dr. Samuels: Subverting the rules, he recently went out for his seventh tattoo.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2017

Subverting the convention, WikiLink suggests a meet cute from the closing scene of 500 Days Of Summer.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013

Subverting a Showgirls or a Reefer Madness is an established route.

From BBC • May 3, 2010