kick over

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Recent Examples of kick over In the penultimate episode of Season 3 of The White Lotus, Rick confronts his father's killer Jim Hollinger, brandishes his gun, decides not to commit murder, kicks over the old man's chair, and finds closure. Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025 The 2023 review found that 18.9 million people born in 1920 or earlier had not been reported dead nor kicked over to the death master file. Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, the ladders in manufacturing that once provided workers without a college diploma a solid wage and upward mobility were kicked over. Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025 The man said he was periodically hit and kicked over the next few hours, and blacked out. Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kick over
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kick over
Verb
  • The suspect's dog had also been recovered and turned over to a humane society for care, officials said.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 30 June 2025
  • Staff members who have seen the vast majority of executive leaders turn over in the last 10 months.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
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  • Santos Neto thrived in his band from 1977 to 1992 before setting off to hone his own, similarly expansive, body of tunes.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
  • Pulled along by Valérie like a recalcitrant puppy, Richard sets off on a quest to find the missing man, who may have ties to the Sicilian Mafia.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
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  • But while the status of the military units in Los Angeles remains undecided, the immigration raids that touched off the protests in early June have intensified.
    Martin Kaste, NPR, 19 June 2025
  • Widespread poverty in rural areas, high unemployment, and poor infrastructure were key triggers behind the 2011 mass protests that toppled a 23-year dictatorship and touched off the Arab Spring uprisings.
    Meriem Belhiba, Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, in suburban Cook County, three courthouses — in Skokie, Maywood and Markham — were activated as 24/7 cooling centers from June 21 to June 24 in response to the heat advisory.
    Lily Carey, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • It’s been a couple of years since Google and Jamestown activated a stretch of downtown San Jose near SAP Center with its Creekside Socials, block parties with music, art and food trucks.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • It’s finished in Bianco white over a Rosso red leather interior and powered by a 2.4-liter V-6 mated to a five-speed manual that makes just under 200 hp.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 June 2025
  • That laid the foundation for modern AI and led the organization to eventually power much of the world’s AI factories and infrastructure, rewiring industry, technology, and aspects of society.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • Wales have done well under Wilkinson to move away from a hardened reputation as being Fishlock’s team and become more of a sum of their parts.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • Already, by last year, JP Morgan Chase, which was founded in New York City more than 200 years ago and has 24,000 employees still in New York today, has started moving workers out of New York by the thousands.
    Time, Time, 26 June 2025

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“Kick over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kick%20over. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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