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upends
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While Piaget was certainly correct in observing that children engage in a host of unusual behaviors, my lab recently uncovered evidence that upends some long-standing assumptions about the limits of children’s logical capabilities that originated with his work.—
Celeste Kidd,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025 -
From the onset, Phalanx is a tale that upends our own familiarity with the Xenomorph by resetting the stakes involved in understanding and combatting them.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Oversets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversets. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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