upended
Example Sentences
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The renewed rebellion upended a four-year truce that seemed to have settled the 2020-22 Tigrayan war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Phillies have upended a century of baseball lineup wisdom by putting their slugger in the leadoff spot and batting their contact hitter cleanup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The extreme heat has been linked to tens of thousands of excess deaths across Europe, upended daily life for millions in ill-adapted regions and disrupted the economy through drought and low river levels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
First, it was the Eaton fire that upended their lives in January of 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Their room was a pitiful mess of clothes, wet towels, orange peel, torn-up pieces of a comic arranged around a sheet of paper, upended chairs partly covered by blankets and the mattresses at a slew.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
