overturned

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If approved, Measure NDC would prohibit data centers within the city limits and could only be overturned by another vote.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

A penalty was awarded on field but the contact by Dean Henderson on Marcos Senesi was minimal and it should have been overturned.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Our 36 study participants are among the 3,820 people recognized by the National Registry of Exonerations as having their false convictions overturned based on actual innocence.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

In 2019, he wrote the 7-2 decision that overturned the murder conviction of Curtis Flowers, who had been accused of killing four people at a rural furniture store in 1996.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

We get to the truck, and I immediately see the blanket in the back has been overturned, and the box that was hidden beneath it is gone.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman