upend
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Global warming is also expected to upend decades of business as usual in the tourism and property sectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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
In a world where artificial intelligence threatens to upend every facet of work and life, some things still remain sacred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
But the mixture of "tinder dry" pine and intense heat helped upend things on day five when the family was awoken on Friday morning.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
They would upend the Mona Lisa investigation—and they would change the course of modern art.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
"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
This year, the influential retail cohort is taking a much more cautious approach as the war in Iran upends markets around the world.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
Set in 1970s San Francisco, this turn-of-the-thumbscrews-tense novel upends noir conventions, placing a drab 19-year-old telephone operator, Celia Dent, center stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
Now he opens the bag and upends its contents onto his palm.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world, experts in California say the disease appears to be becoming more of a summer rather than a winter phenomenon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But it also revealed another side of the scheme: the Americans whose lives have been upended along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
EasyJet's losses had deepened by 27 percent in the first half of its financial year, to £377 million, as the US-Iran conflict sent fuel prices soaring and upended travel plans.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Taking me in must have completely upended their lives.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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
Apple’s suit against OpenAI under Tim Cook echoes a familiar playbook, betting that litigation can delay a rival from upending the iPhone era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Forces — some visible, some harder to see — are upending literature and education itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
“I hope you are staying out of trouble, jeremie,” said Sister Claire, upending a chair to dust the bottom, and looking at me suspiciously.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
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