upend
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And that’s not the only history the U.S. will be seeking to upend Wednesday against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
As always, markets do not move in straight lines, and a significant bear market early in retirement could upend those plans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Lau argued that Congress could not have intended to give individual border agents such vast discretion to upend the lives of green-card holders.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
The strikes threatened to upend the fledgling agreement in its final hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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
The move upends a period of relative calm in economic relations between the U.S. and EU, whose annual two-way trade relationship is worth roughly $1.5 trillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Oil demand is also set to contract by 80,000 barrels a day this year, “as Iran war upends our global outlook,” it added.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
The cold spell upends what had actually been a tepid winter, which along with rising Appalachia and Permian gas production, has driven what’s still a 32% decline in natural gas prices from their December peak.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 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
During the pandemic — a period when many Americans upended their lives and moved to new places where they could work remotely — rock-bottom mortgage rates allowed many people to buy houses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
In May, EasyJet reported that its losses had deepened by 27 percent in the first half of the financial year to £377 million, as the US-Iran conflict sent fuel prices soaring and upended travel plans.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ahmed created, wrote and produced this limited series about a struggling actor whose life is upended when rumors circulate he might be the next James Bond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Our colleagues are plugging gaps, doing the impossible, working too many hours to back-fill, are experiencing burnout and ill health and have their private lives upended," Mr Kelly said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The upended carton was about four feet high.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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
His grandfather had fled their village in 1948 to avoid being conscripted in the civil war that was upending millions of lives.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Surging demand from data centers, mostly driven by artificial intelligence, is upending the power-generation and utilities business.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 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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