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
  • Three ‘traitors’ are given the opportunity to ‘murder’ contestants, while remaining ‘faithfuls’ have to smoke them out, and the group compete in daily challenges to keep the prize fund steady.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Like Trump, Carlson appeals to his base by positioning himself as a class traitor—not a man of the people, exactly, but an apostate from the cosmopolitan élite.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of traitor
Noun
  • My least favorite type of collaborator in any situation, or even a romantic relationship, is someone who has some need in themselves that is un-figured out.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The superhit started as a haunting number from his frequent Miracles collaborator and guitarist Marv Tarplin.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of collaborator
Noun
  • The sellout crowd — the first on Monday night in Denver since 2018 — didn’t know whether to roar or exhale.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Few in the sellout crowd left their seats until well after the celebration — largely because the win was not certain to happen coming into a game that offered one of the league’s most intriguing playoff matchups in years.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of sellout
Noun
  • Others to Watch: Marc Andreessen: A vc worth $1.9 billion, Andreessen made waves as an ex-Democrat donating to pro-Trump groups—among the first key Silicon Valley turncoats—and went to Mar-A-Lago on election night.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Some of you certainly want Cowboy-loving turncoat Isaac shipped off to Axios Dallas, pronto.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of turncoat
Noun
  • 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
  • Finding conspirators within the government and media Patel has expressed interest in giving the government leeway to crack down on officials who anonymously disclose sensitive information and the reporters who write about it.
    Andi Shae Napier, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Authorities also alleged that five Adani executives and unnamed conspirators involved in the scheme pledged to destroy or hide documents or provide false information to the U.S. government in connection with the investigation.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Nov. 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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