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beat, best, conquer, defeat, dispatch, do down [British], get, get around, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), skunk, stop, subdue, surmount, take, trim, triumph (over), win (against), worst
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Also upending the traditional focus on Iowa and New Hampshire is a heavier emphasis on early voting, a process that has become more popular with each election. — Reid J. Epstein, WSJ, "California Upends 2020 Democratic Primary Calendar," 17 Dec. 2018 His wooing of Mr Trump was upended at the G7 summit in Quebec. — The Economist, "Emmanuel Macron, the resolutely modern philosopher king," 13 June 2018 Kathy Griffin got pretty quiet last year in the weeks and months following that time her life was upended and her career nearly derailed by a now-infamous photo of the comedian holding a Donald Trump mask covered in fake blood. — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, "Controversial comic Kathy Griffin’s back, with a warning for fans coming to her show," 13 July 2018 And there's good reason for Trump to want to upend the table and reposition all the pieces. — NBC News, "Trump hits the world stage, Day One: Come late, leave early, offend host, alienate allies," 8 June 2018 Meanwhile, Goodall camped for months in the jungles of Tanzania to bring back reports of the intelligence and sociability of chimpanzees, which upended the scientific establishment’s assumption of human supremacy. — Joanna Scutts, Philly.com, "'Visionary Women' by Joanna Scutts: Four women who changed the world," 3 Apr. 2018 That story was really about one of the most ancient and traditional societies on Earth very rapidly being upended by the opening of market forces. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "Elites like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos think they’re being philanthropic. But they could do so much more.," 3 Oct. 2018 The novel, which is about a middle-class businessman whose life is upended during Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998. — Annika Neklason, The Atlantic, "‘The Trust of the Reader Is Distrusted by Roth’," 24 May 2018 The testimony delivered by Jody Wilson-Raybould to a parliamentary committee offered the most detailed version yet of events fueling a scandal that risks upending Mr. Trudeau’s re-election effort later this year. — Kim Mackrael, WSJ, "Political Scandal Worsens for Canada’s Justin Trudeau," 27 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'upend.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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