overthrow

Human rights group Amnesty International says prosecutors falsely alleged that the Gezi park protests were an attempt to overthrow the government.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

These implicated the U.S. in a plot to overthrow the Tanzanian government and generated anti-American press coverage across the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Then there’s the fact that Nicaraguan migrants in the United States are a smaller and less powerful force than Cuban Americans, many of whom have lobbied Washington for decades to isolate and overthrow Havana’s leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Neighbouring Turkey is a key supporter of Syria's new authorities, while Israel has carried out repeated incursions and bombings in the country since Assad's overthrow.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Jen grinned as if he’d just announced the overthrow of the Government.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have now uncovered a key reason behind these coordinated overthrows and how they unfold so precisely.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

Pakistan became a rabble, beset by misfields and overthrows, while six home bowlers conceded more than 100 runs.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024

There were a couple of overthrows to Ja’Lynn Polk as well.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

Dobbs threw for two touchdowns in his fifth start for the injured Kyler Murray, but had two interceptions on overthrows and lost a fumble that set up a Bengals’ fourth-quarter field goal.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

Reception of Napoleon on his return to France.He overthrows the Directory.He is sustained by the people.

From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Apple finally overthrew Nvidia to reclaim the title of the world’s largest company by market capitalization, underscoring the dramatic degree to which the iPhone maker’s stock is clobbering the broader technology universe.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

“He had the ability if he was developed and stayed healthy. I think he probably overthrew and tore his rotator cuff and nobody knew it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Founded after the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah, it was then forged in the deadly misery of the eight-year war with Iraq.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

The 1976 coup overthrew president Isabel Peron, who had replaced her husband Juan Peron after he died in office.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

After the French Revolution, which overthrew the monarchy, it completed its final transformation into a museum, a monument for the new French Republic.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

In November 1688 the absolutist and pro-Catholic king of England was overthrown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

On 7 December, mutinying soldiers claimed to have overthrown the Benin president.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

A 34-year-old resident of Sanandaj in western Iran said the intensity of the attacks had decreased and that in recent days he "realised the Islamic republic will not be overthrown in the way we imagined".

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

“I’m happy because the Ayatollah was overthrown, and for the freedom,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

By 1945, a growing number of whites in the North had concluded that the Jim Crow system would have to be modified, if not entirely overthrown.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

I watched a movie called “The International,” which focused on an Interpol investigation of a bank that primarily served groups intent on overthrowing existing governments.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

“Just not overthrowing the ball, not throwing as hard as I can but hitting the spots and having a feel for my off-speed pitches,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

Ruhollah Khomeini, the ayatollah who founded the Islamic Republic after the revolution overthrowing the shah in 1979, regarded passing power to a child as un-Islamic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

“I thought he was overthrowing, I hadn’t seen that all spring,” Roberts said after the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

“They are dedicated to overthrowing preserves in order to use them for their own misguided purposes,” Grandpa said.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull