upend
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Others at the town hall, however, expressed fury that the two remaining ranching families were now trying to upend the deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Global warming is also expected to upend decades of business as usual in the tourism and property sectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The disputes could upend efforts to sideline the militant group in Gaza.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
People retiring in reasonably good health “fail to account for how steeply healthcare expenses can climb in their late 70s and 80s. Long-term care alone can upend even a well-funded retirement plan,” Cox said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
She feared that the wind might upend her and she would crash to earth and break into a million small splinters.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
"It really upends a theory that says that symbolic rule induction is not possible without linguistic capacities," says Kean.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The disaster upends U.S. plans to reap the benefits of an unlikely alliance that had opened up the world’s biggest oil reserves and vast mineral deposits to American investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
There are signs of China’s growing influence as the AI boom upends the status quo.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Villarreal: We see in the film that, at the height of their stardom, Claire suffers a tragic accident and it upends their world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Now he opens the bag and upends its contents onto his palm.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The celebrity gossip blogger became as famous as the stars he covered before social media upended his business model.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
His existence is upended by a visit from an eccentric young man he discovers lurking outside his apartment in New York’s West Village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
But whatever price structure it chooses could be upended if and when the large language model providers change their own pricing strategies.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
AI has completely upended the software pricing model, challenging both traditional software companies and leading AI companies.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Carter tugged harder and there was a clatter like a bag of flat river stones upended onto the tabletop.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Life has a way of upending even the best financial plans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The sudden breakthrough suggests that China's tech prowess is rapidly narrowing the capabilities gap, upending long-held assumptions in the West that Chinese developers trail their American peers.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Forces — some visible, some harder to see — are upending literature and education itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Do that enough, and climate change could be curtailed without upending the world as we know it.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
It is a tower that stands tall and upending like a good soldier, for nearly four hundred years, not wobbling or falling down.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
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