upend
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“Particularly when your disobedience threatens to upend how the business makes money. In Hollywood you can be an addict, be a philanderer, be outspoken. But don’t disrupt the cash flow.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
More broadly, the misery for software and cybersecurity stocks, which have been laggards all year due to concerns about how AI could upend those industries, continued Wednesday.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
It’s a question of what do we do about these smaller disasters that can still upend people’s lives, can still cause millions of dollars of damage that states have to deal with, but aren’t catastrophes.
From Slate • May 21, 2026
Little has changed for buyers and sellers, despite rules introduced in 2024 designed to finally upend the traditional 6% real-estate commission model.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Between the two of us, we push and drag and tug that coffin out the narrow door, upend it, turn it around, and put it in the room next door.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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