subversions

plural of subversion

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Recent Examples of subversions The lack of any real surprises or subversions along the way can be a drag, making the Prime Video miniseries feel a bit padded even at a relatively trim six hour-long episodes. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025 The full-shearling texture and whimsical proportions are signature ERL — a brand known for its playful subversions of everyday silhouettes. Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Such subversions can be seen as the story pivots from one twist to another and one surprise to the next. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subversions
Noun
  • The president can also legally invoke the military under the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be deployed in order to curb insurrections.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Wars that lasted a hundred years, wars between Lutherans and Catholics and between Christians and Muslims, the siege of Constantinople, Mitteleuropa’s peasant rebellions, the lowland’s revolt against Spain, England’s conquest of Ireland.
    Greg Grandin September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Police would kill many more people in the rebellions that occasionally broke out afterwards, in Miami and Los Angeles and elsewhere.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
  • One can scarcely draw solace from the trajectories of those recent revolts.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But revolutions are marathons, not sprints.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • All revolutions are ultimately civil wars, right?
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • More multicasts of our sonic uprisings to compete with America's myopic narrowcasting.
    Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Subversions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subversions. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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