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The word "Subverted" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe the act of undermining or overthrowing an established system, belief, or authority. Example: "The film subverted traditional storytelling by presenting the antagonist as the hero."
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Subverted
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Past of subvert
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The NSA had not only subverted technical standards, attempting to break the encryption that holds the global financial industry together, it had also stolen the keys to as many vaults as possible.
Byrne's contention is that the coalition has subverted the Haldane Principle by funding its favourite projects.
The moment a present becomes not a simple act of goodwill but an obligation that is fulfilled in front of witnesses, its delights are subverted.
Its savage violence confronted head-on the aesthetics of impressionism – then at the apogee of Parisian musical fashion – just as the razor-sharp editing between phrases subverted the smooth, seamless flow of the Germanic symphonic tradition with pitiless efficacy.
After all, the bloc voting that has for years subverted the event has habitually played in Ukraine's favour.
There is the wretched oxymoron of the peaceful ideal of the mid-60s counterculture being subverted by the violence it abhorred, as the decades clicked over.
Wins over world champions like Devon Alexander, Marcos Maidana, Zab Judah, Andriy Kotelnik and Paulie Malignaggi have pushed him to the fringe of the Hall of Fame discussion, but the high-profile setbacks – a tactically inept knockout loss to Danny Garcia and 54-second destruction at the hands of Breidis Prescott – have often subverted his ascent at the worst possible times.
But as rightwing movements grow in influence across the continent, Europe must wake up to their insidious means of funding, or risk seeing its own institutions subverted.
Yet their political system was subverted from the outset by dubious choices made in 2001.
Under the LDP, party politicians often subverted the government's agenda.
The party describes anti-graft investigators as breaking "factions" that have subverted central authority by blocking its reforms.
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