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Example sentences for: subverts

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The mechanisms whereby HIV-1 subverts cell-cycle controls in infected renal epithelium have been unclear.
A joke sets up a chain of logic, and then subverts it in a surprising and delightful way; that's the punch line.
But it is the breakdown of decorum, the rejection of a social value that everyone knows is necessary, yet proscribed, that the relajo subverts.
Or, to be more elegant here (in keeping with the spirit of your own mandarin replies), you might say that the piece subverts the tradition of staged photography, blasting a hole through the cold, calculating heart of '90s art.
Helms' supporters accept this distinction, because it subverts Weld's campaign to broaden the ideological confrontation.