upend
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It explains why smart, humble and even paranoid leaders aren’t immune to being blindsided, and it feels especially relevant now as AI threatens to upend many business models, while quantum computing awaits us all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
New Apple CEO John Ternus may want to watch his back, because Meta Platforms is making a play to upend the smartphone giant’s ecosystem, analysts say.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
They were often, by this point, already convinced something big was coming that would upend our social order, if not our entire understanding of the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
They are still hurting, still missing the loved ones they lost, and they must surely be forever on alert for similar devastations that could come and upend their lives again.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Her mouth watered instantly; it had been so long since she had tasted something sweet that she wanted to upend the entire jar into her mouth.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Whether the Lucas Museum upends the art world may depend less on whether other museums adopt its philosophy than on whether audiences embrace the connections it attempts to draw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
A terrible accident on a country-club golf course upends the life of an ambitious young player.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"It really upends a theory that says that symbolic rule induction is not possible without linguistic capacities," says Kean.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
There are signs of China’s growing influence as the AI boom upends the status quo.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Now he opens the bag and upends its contents onto his palm.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The party, held in the Rendezvous Hotel, was hosted by BGC Group, a U.S.-listed brokerage who has seen its fortunes boom since the Iran war upended global energy markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The extreme heat has been linked to tens of thousands of excess deaths across Europe, upended daily life for millions in ill-adapted regions and disrupted the economy through drought and low river levels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
First, it was the Eaton fire that upended their lives in January of 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Attacks by Iran on Qatar’s production network have upended that supply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
Obara let them fill her cup to the brim, then upended it to spill the red wine on the floor.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
A record-breaking El Nino will likely force the world's top chefs to rethink their menus ahead of droughts, floods and heatwaves upending global food systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Ford made their name with the micro-indie, micro-focused “Test Pattern,” an act of upending as it dissected an interracial relationship’s fault lines in a moment of crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Life has a way of upending even the best financial plans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The sudden breakthrough suggests that China's tech prowess is rapidly narrowing the capabilities gap, upending long-held assumptions in the West that Chinese developers trail their American peers.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
This utter upending of what the citizens of Weep thought they knew about the citadel they already feared with such cold, debilitating dread?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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