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upended

adjective as in capsized

adjective as in upright

adverb as in topsy-turvy

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He did, however, say that “a lot of faculty are overreacting these days,” requiring students, for instance, to take tests only in highly controlled areas even though the pandemic has upended their life.

So while everyone obviously understands the show’s desire to focus on the music, it was still jarring to see the mostly maskless indoor ceremony, with only a few references to the pandemic that has upended everyone’s lives.

ESPN announces hundreds of layoffs as pandemic, cord-cutting upend sports television

Barton said McDaniel’s claim was a “gut punch” given how physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted her staff of seven was after administering an election upended by the coronavirus pandemic and new statewide voting requirements.

They are navigating jobs upended by a pandemic, the economic downturn, social unrest, wildfires, plummeting requests for rides and surging demands for delivery.

When Herzog appeared in 1964, it upended our ideas about what novels could accomplish.

It upended the normal social order, but over the course of the Summer Project, the new social order held.

Last week, outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a war hawk, was upended in a surprise primary loss.

Then, in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court upended two centuries of precedent.

He was the electric young upstart who upended her inevitable path to the White House in Iowa.

Father Paul chose a block of wood from the pile beside the stove, upended it, and seated himself.

She upended herself again, and the chair, altho it wabbled distractingly, did not cast her off.

He took off his coat, hung it on the back of a chair, upended his hat and sat down with a tired smile.

With one stroke of the pick I upended several more yellow bars.

Too high for me to reach, I presently found a large box which I upended cautiously until it lay beneath the port.

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On this page you'll find 141 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to upended, such as: flipped, inverted, overturned, upset, bottom-side-up, and flipped over.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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