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Recent Examples of subvert The Hacks star, 34, made a statement with her arrival to the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, subverting the event's formal dress code. Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025 Those tactics are also used to generate funds meant to help the regime subvert international sanctions and develop its nuclear weapons programs, according to the US government. Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025 Henry manages to subvert her own wisdom. Susan Coll september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025 Advertisement The film largely follows the trajectory of the novel, but changes some details along the way—and adds one new, final twist that subverts the overall message of King's dystopian tale. Megan McCluskey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for subvert
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Verb
  • But warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, disease and human activity, such as pollution, have severely degraded Florida's reefs, according to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The team’s goal is to track and predict how asphalt roads degrade.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For investors, even opposition threats of repeal weaken confidence by raising doubts about long-term policy stability.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • While his core supporters remain loyal, sustained disapproval among the broader public could weaken his leverage in negotiations with Congress and erode confidence in his leadership.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Democrats and civil libertarians said Trump corrupted the system of justice by getting involved.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, what that sets up, in the game of Survivor, is someone ready to be corrupted.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a five-floor apartment building in the Solomyanskyi district was partially destroyed and caught fire.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Mexico built a hydroelectric dam, where these golden barrel cactuses live and in an instant their environment was destroyed and this species was almost wiped out.
    Eyder Peralta, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lord Lovat is utterly humiliated and this turns out to be a major problem for Brian.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There’s always a moment in which somebody humiliates the villain and now all the love in him is gone.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For decades, bartenders have been defaming the Mai Tai, debasing it, making and selling versions of the drink that were childish and incomplex, saccharine and flat.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike bonds, which promise repayment of the primary investment at a future date, warranting demands for higher yields to offset inflation concerns, gold is a physical asset that cannot be debased by fiscal mismanagement or political interference.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Krishna discovers that Kaliya is living beneath the surface of a local pond and poisoning its waters with his venom.
    Seamus Sullivan September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Authorities said Boytsov is also accused of poisoning his wife, who is one of the deceased, with the alcohol.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The 2024 European Parliament elections strengthened far-right blocs and pushed the centre-right toward diluting elements of the Green Deal, reframing climate rules as sovereignty or competitiveness threats and amplifying cost-of-living and farmer-protest narratives.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Bitcoin treasury craze cools Companies that diluted their stock by selling shares specifically to fund Bitcoin purchases have seen their values tumble by 20% to 50%, according to the WSJ.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Subvert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subvert. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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