topple
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The incident between Leclerc and Hamilton on lap one took place in the context of Hamilton saying after qualifying they had to "work as a team to try and topple" Mercedes.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Dirty Harry” was condemned as racist and even fascist in its day; Dirty Marky paints a crowd-pleasing picture of how disregarding the rulebook could help topple the Ku Klux Klan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
European football looks like an outlier, struggling to gain enough support to topple him.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
NHK aired footage from elsewhere in the southwestern Kumamoto region on Kyushu island showing several blazes, damaged bridges, a derailed cargo train and a number of houses threatening to topple over.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I felt arms catch me as my feet tangled in the stool and I began to topple to the floor.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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A Silicon Valley enclave topples Miami island as the most expensive U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Plus, AI topples a 80 year-old math problem, the Brockmans sit for an interview and physical AI gets its due.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
It topples over, it knocks the next one over and the next one over, and it all goes really quickly.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2023
You look so shocked when a dog topples your precious kid over!
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
I sit up abruptly, and Bob topples off my stomach.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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That figure toppled the number of cases reported in all of 2025, and some public health experts believe it may be an undercount.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Dozens of young people congregated at Nepal's burnt-out parliament building on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
That record was promptly toppled that March when a group of seven Berkeley students completed a run in five hours and 47 minutes, a feat certified as a Guinness World Record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Aparcedo and her family spent three years in a shelter following the floods before being relocated to a public housing project — which toppled in the June earthquake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
He’d put on his trousers, tried to take a step and toppled over.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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In 1977, Dundee went head-to-head with Jerry Lawler at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, toppling “The King” and taking $2,000 of Lawler’s own money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Back home, “Rein Me In,” a springy collaboration with the U.K. rocker Sam Fender, is now the country’s longest-running No. 1 male-female duet, toppling Jay-Z and Rihanna’s “Umbrella.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
As the models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep toppling brutal problems, they have done something no less improbable: They have turned me into a math person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The exterior walls of the 17th century Kumamoto Castle, in the city's centre, came toppling down in a plume of dust.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
A truck growls by, a trash can lid bangs shut, reminding me of the sound of the trash bin toppling at lunch.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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