as in to capsize
to turn on one's side or upside down
afraid that my kayak would overturn
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as in veto
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as in overthrow
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Recent Examples of overturn
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
27 June 2026
This week, the Supreme Court overturned a Hawaii law that forced gun owners to get permission to bring a firearm onto private property that is open to the public, like a restaurant, supermarket or gas station.
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Forbestv,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
16 Apr. 2026
And far worse if a postseason game is decided by an overturn that, due to the margin of error, might have been flat wrong.
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Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Verb
The following year, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction.
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Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
27 June 2026
This week, the Supreme Court overturned a Hawaii law that forced gun owners to get permission to bring a firearm onto private property that is open to the public, like a restaurant, supermarket or gas station.
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Forbestv,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
Noun
And while his overturn percentage is lower, his eight strikeouts gained by challenges lead the league.
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Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
16 Apr. 2026
And far worse if a postseason game is decided by an overturn that, due to the margin of error, might have been flat wrong.
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Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overturn
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The boat capsized after the crash, throwing all into the bay.
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That way, no one event can capsize the fund.
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The political landscape around data centers has since changed since Newsom’s veto in October, said Dan Schnur, a political science professor who teaches at UC Berkeley and USC.
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Kansas lawmakers last year failed to get the two-thirds support needed to call themselves into a special session on redistricting and override a potential veto by the Democratic governor.
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Haitian soldiers seasoned on American battlefields during the revolution later sparked Haiti’s overthrow of French colonial rule, depriving France of its most profitable slave colony and ending one of the most brutal enslavement of human beings in modern world history.
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Then in 1973, Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his secretary of state, plotted the overthrow of yet another democracy in Chile, propping up the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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House of the Dragon’s season-three premiere upsets the conventional wisdom.
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Both were made to sit outside the gates, deeply upsetting the family who mourned within.
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Republican leaders in the House and Senate failed to muster the votes to enact the bill into law over Kelly’s veto, and no override attempt was made.
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In that view, the fragrance acts less as a chemical override and more as a sensory cue that brings out confidence in the wearer and association in the person nearby.
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Soon, this kind of spirit will carry the 13 colonies to protest, revolt and win the American Revolution.
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The rebellion was the first major popular revolt in England’s North American colonies and reflected tensions over frontier settlement, relations with Native Americans, political authority, and access to land.
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When AllHere collapsed in mid-2024, the district — with Carvalho’s support — launched an internal review.
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At least 383 buildings and over 1,000 other structures had collapsed or were heavily affected, and officials were still assessing the damage.
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The appropriate remedy is congressional overruling of the Marquette case so as to allow the states to regulate loans to their own citizens.
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In recent years, the court’s conservative majority overruling of major, longstanding precedents has become a defining feature of Roberts’ tenure.
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“Overturn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overturn. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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