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topple

[top-uhl] / ˈtɒp əl /


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The incident between Leclerc and Hamilton on lap one took place in the context of Hamilton saying after qualifying they had to "work as a team to try and topple" Mercedes.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

“Dirty Harry” was condemned as racist and even fascist in its day; Dirty Marky paints a crowd-pleasing picture of how disregarding the rulebook could help topple the Ku Klux Klan.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

European football looks like an outlier, struggling to gain enough support to topple him.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

NHK aired footage from elsewhere in the southwestern Kumamoto region on Kyushu island showing several blazes, damaged bridges, a derailed cargo train and a number of houses threatening to topple over.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

I felt arms catch me as my feet tangled in the stool and I began to topple to the floor.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

A Silicon Valley enclave topples Miami island as the most expensive U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Plus, AI topples a 80 year-old math problem, the Brockmans sit for an interview and physical AI gets its due.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

It topples over, it knocks the next one over and the next one over, and it all goes really quickly.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2023

You look so shocked when a dog topples your precious kid over!

From Seattle Times Jun. 18, 2023

I sit up abruptly, and Bob topples off my stomach.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

That figure toppled the number of cases reported in all of 2025, and some public health experts believe it may be an undercount.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Dozens of young people congregated at Nepal's burnt-out parliament building on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

That record was promptly toppled that March when a group of seven Berkeley students completed a run in five hours and 47 minutes, a feat certified as a Guinness World Record.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Aparcedo and her family spent three years in a shelter following the floods before being relocated to a public housing project — which toppled in the June earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

He’d put on his trousers, tried to take a step and toppled over.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

In 1977, Dundee went head-to-head with Jerry Lawler at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, toppling “The King” and taking $2,000 of Lawler’s own money.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

Back home, “Rein Me In,” a springy collaboration with the U.K. rocker Sam Fender, is now the country’s longest-running No. 1 male-female duet, toppling Jay-Z and Rihanna’s “Umbrella.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

As the models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep toppling brutal problems, they have done something no less improbable: They have turned me into a math person.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The exterior walls of the 17th century Kumamoto Castle, in the city's centre, came toppling down in a plume of dust.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

A truck growls by, a trash can lid bangs shut, reminding me of the sound of the trash bin toppling at lunch.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari




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