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
Bailey Richards, People.com, 29 June 2025
The impact caused the Mercedes to lose control and overturn.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 21 June 2025
Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
But, years before Dobbs, a group of activists calling themselves the Respect New Mexico Women campaign began petitioning lawmakers to overturn the ban.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
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Verb
It was enacted after the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 29 June 2025
The impact caused the Mercedes to lose control and overturn.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 21 June 2025
Noun
Legal experts previously told Newsweek that the Court could end up overturning Colorado’s ban.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
But, years before Dobbs, a group of activists calling themselves the Respect New Mexico Women campaign began petitioning lawmakers to overturn the ban.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overturn
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The group gets stranded at sea off the coast of Florida when their boat capsizes, leading Coast Guard Captain Timothy Close (Duhamel) to oversee the efforts to bring them home as a storm looms.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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The concept has never been tested in the real world, and the unfathomable risks include the danger that cables could snap, causing entire rigs to capsize in storms, creating debris fields along the Pacific Coast.—
Craig Rucker,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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Cunningham’s veto votes, immigration comments draw ire Critiques came to a head this summer when Cunningham cast the deciding vote to override Stein’s veto of House Bill 318, which bolstered the legislation enacted last year requiring sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.—
Mary Ramsey
October 3,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
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Newsom, in a veto message, said current law already allows funding for such housing.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Gulf countries — led by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE — have pledged more than $10 billion in reconstruction projects and aid since the overthrow of the Assad regime in December.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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By demanding clarity and presence, the clear and present danger test intentionally protected political speech — even speech calling for the violent overthrow of the federal government — absent the immediacy and probability of the speech causing that result.—
Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
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Other teams have watched the league get bigger and adjusted accordingly, with the Denver Nuggets winning the 2023 championship with two big forwards next to Nikola Jokić at center, only to be upset this past spring against an even larger Minnesota Timberwolves front line.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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At least two ranked teams have been upset every week so far this season, creating a pretty open field for the 12-team College Football Playoff.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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Some analysts warn that investors may now have to factor in political risk ranging from regulatory intervention to executive overrides.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
20 Sep. 2025
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Adoption will depend on notifications, override options, and transparency into agent decisions.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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What began as a protest against a government social media ban quickly morphed into a broader revolt against corruption and economic stagnation.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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The popularity of these names, especially in Galilee, a hotbed of revolt and messianic expectations, stemmed from their revolutionary connotations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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Only the structures that were already gravitationally bound together at that moment, not including the structures that were still collapsing and contracting on their way to becoming gravitationally bound, will actually be able to hold together.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Oct. 2025
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Confidence notably collapsed during the divisive 2016 presidential campaign, the polling service says, with the highest reading in the past decade being 45% in 2018.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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History happened here with an unprecedented number of fashion revolutions and evolutions.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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And as the superpowers moved on from Cold War battlefields, the ideological paradigms that had once made Central American revolutions feel globally significant faded with them.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Overturn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overturn. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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