overturn

Example Sentences

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Scientists at Aarhus University have overturned a long-standing assumption about how life's essential ingredients emerge.

From Science Daily

Over the past decade, a series of discoveries on Sulawesi has overturned the old idea that art and abstract thinking in our species burst suddenly into life in Ice Age Europe and spread from there.

From BBC

However, if the amendment passed in the Lords, it could be overturned in the House of Commons by MPs at a later stage.

From BBC

But Israel's Kan public broadcaster reported that the supreme court overturned the lower court's decision on Tuesday after an appeal from the families of the deceased children.

From Barron's

Now it’s basically a chicken truck overturned on the Interstate.

From The Wall Street Journal