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upheaval

[uhp-hee-vuhl] / ʌpˈhi vəl /


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But its good witchery also contextualizes the quest for sanity in mad times like ours with comforting observations about occultism’s role during eras of social upheaval.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

With the upheaval and restructuring in Welsh rugby, the perennial talking point of turning the Prem into an Anglo-Welsh league reared its head over the summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

All of which raises a question for Quenneville and the Ducks coming off a summer of upheaval and turnover: What can they do for an encore?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Last week, Microsoft released a playbook detailing how it is navigating the AI upheaval.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

This badgering soul who’d thrown his entire existence into upheaval?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

It has survived wars and upheavals, but the famed handwoven Kashmir carpet industry is now battling a steady decline as younger generations abandon the painstaking craft.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

There are cameos from the economist Ben Bernanke, Elon Musk and the PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, plus meditations on business, the environment and technology, and episodes that cover a range of 21st-century upheavals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Later dubbed "quantitative easing", such upheavals included the 1980s savings and loan crisis, the first Gulf War, the Mexican peso crisis and - shortly after he had retired - the global credit crisis in 2008.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

With a series of major upheavals in the past month alone, Roberts has signaled that he is shifting to a two-minute offense.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

Even the October Revolution in Russia in 1905, an event with thunderously far-reaching implications for society at large, had minimal impact on the contemporaneous upheavals in music.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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