upheaval
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Even if it was practical to unpick it all, she's acknowledged there's little appetite for major upheaval.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Alcove is entering a market that’s ripe for upheaval, Risher said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
You are a survivor and, given the kind of upheaval you have endured, you are living a different kind of American dream.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
During this evolutionary upheaval, large sections of genetic material were rearranged, bringing regions of chromosomes that had previously been separated into close proximity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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There are great musical monuments to historical upheavals, but vanishingly few were written during the events they depict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Later dubbed "quantitative easing", such upheavals included the 1980s savings and loan crisis, the first Gulf War, the Mexican peso crisis and - shortly after he had retired - the global credit crisis in 2008.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Still, Fratzscher said that Germany had undergone economic upheavals before, and urged politicians and companies to try to ensure the economy emerges stronger.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
With a series of major upheavals in the past month alone, Roberts has signaled that he is shifting to a two-minute offense.
From Slate ● May 13, 2026
Even the October Revolution in Russia in 1905, an event with thunderously far-reaching implications for society at large, had minimal impact on the contemporaneous upheavals in music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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