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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overthrew
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About 275 passengers and 12 crew members were on the eastbound train train from Los Angeles to Chicago when the rail cars toppled off the tracks and onto their side early Monday afternoon, Amtrak said.
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Hudspeth and other volunteers took over the cleanup by picking up leaves and fallen branches and cleaning broken and toppled headstones.
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Before Monday’s deadly crash, the most recent incident involving a B-52 occurred in 2016 in Guam, after the plane overran the runway.
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Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Teoscar Hernández overran the ricochet.
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Though Peterson never dealt with anything as serious as the herniated disc and microdiscectomy surgery that affected Porter, muscle cramping upended his season in Kansas and left scouts wondering about his long-term availability.
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Trump’s announcement took some off guard and upended the housing victory laps lawmakers had planned.
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Okongwu is switchable on defense, but he can be overpowered by bigger, stronger centers around the basket.
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On Tuesday, more stocks gained ground within the S&P 500 than fell, but tech companies overpowered gains elsewhere.
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Pink started things literally inverted, with one of her famous aerial tricks to begin her opening number.
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That equation has been inverted.
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In a world often overwhelmed by heartbreak and division, the story confirms that love has a way of continuing on.
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Knicks fans nearly overwhelmed it before the floats arrived.
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In Tennessee, a pickup truck carrying about 1 million bees overturned near Knoxville in April, unleashing a swarm that blanketed the crash scene.
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The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict.
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Israeli troops occupy more than 10% of Lebanese territory, leaving a trail of destruction that has seen swaths of the country’s south all but razed.
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Because this is about football, the sport that has destroyed rivalries, razed conferences and served up its departmental peers like sacrificial lambs.
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“Overthrew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrew. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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