subverter

noun

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as in traitor

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  1. traitor
  2. collaborator
  3. sellout
  4. turncoat
  5. quisling
  6. conspirator
  7. Judas
  8. accommodationist
Noun
  • The remaining players will therefore have to rely on their instincts to know whether there is still a traitor left in the game.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Dumitrescu The Treachery of Translation Three novels explore the idea of translators as traitors to themselves.
    Justin Salhani, The Dial, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of traitor
Noun
  • Contra Friday was a rough day for perhaps TikTok’s most notable American collaborator, software giant Oracle, whose stock tanked 5%, the worst daily loss of any of the U.S.’ 40 mega-cap companies worth at least $200 billion.
    Derek Saul, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Foreman’s greatest collaborator and performer, his wife Kate Manheim, who survives him, had stopped acting in the eighties.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of collaborator
Noun
  • As a raucous sellout crowd of 11,011 looked on, the Vols managed just 4 first-half field goals while missing all 14 3-point attempts against the Gators, who allowed Kentucky to shoot 58% from the field — 48% from 3-point range — during a 106-100 loss Saturday.
    Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Blips abounded before a sellout crowd, both from stretches of suspect game management and poor puck luck, leaving the Ducks with one point before heading off on a season-long, six-game road trip.
    Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of sellout
Noun
  • From the rioters who breached the Capitol building to the lawmakers trapped inside, from Trump-world turncoats, to the now president-elect himself, many who joined or were caught up in the riot are still living with fallout from the January 6 of four years ago.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Yikes, the generative AI has somehow gone turncoat.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of turncoat
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  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
Definition of quisling
Noun
  • The other conspirators in the alleged LASD coverup were not named in Benza’s plea agreement.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The conspirators each face up to 27 years in prison if convicted, the DOJ said.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of conspirator
Noun
  • But with this show, Wolfram's classmates at the all-girl Catholic high school will take on the roles of Pontius Pilate, King Harrod, and the Apostles in the story of the last seven days of Jesus’s life, as told through the eyes of his betrayer, Judas Iscariot.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Gaga retells the story of Judas Iscariot through the eyes of a Mary Magdalene torn between Jesus and Judas, love and temptation, aggressive verses and dazzling melodic choruses.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of Judas
Noun
  • Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended.
    Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022
  • Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist.
    Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
Definition of accommodationist
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