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as in toppling
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as in overrunning
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Instead of freezing or toppling, the control software reacts immediately, reads the irregular momentum, and adjusts the next steps.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Dec. 2025 -
Defrosted from the Arctic ice thanks to a nuclear test, the big dino lays waste to New York, toppling buildings and bringing with it a deadly prehistoric plague that’s frankly scarier in the COVID era than the giant monster is.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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Homeless people overrunning the city.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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In the fifth, Byron Buxton hit a double and was tagged out after overrunning the base.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
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Lucas Blalock likewise finds tragicomic potential in photography itself, inverting Photoshop as a mere tool of postproduction to foreground it as generative and creative, leaving visible traces of labor in ugly edits and unrefined refinements.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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Rafael Nadal, the 22-time Grand Slam champion, with 14 of them in Paris lived his views on the matter by inverting this paradox.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
6 June 2026
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Sosa, Realmuto, Kyle Schwarber and Brandon Marsh each had three of Philadelphia's 17 hits — one night after the Phillies were limited to one as Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski struck out 15 batters on 95 overpowering pitches in his first career shutout.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 June 2026
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The games were neither displays of baseball elegance nor overpowering runaways.—
Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
8 June 2026
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Russia suspended jet fuel exports, further upending trade in a product already hugely affected by the Iran war.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
2 June 2026
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Both movies were directed by YouTube stars and cost nearly nothing to produce, upending conventional wisdom about the necessary components for a hit.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
31 May 2026
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Phase one, tentatively scheduled for June 2026 to August 2027, includes demolishing several buildings, upgrading library fire alarms and readying central campus for construction.—
Gqlshare,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Dec. 2025
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The demolition proposal went before the historic preservation commission under the city’s review rules, which call for taking a closer look before demolishing older buildings that could be historic and considering alternatives or options for reuse.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
25 Nov. 2025
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The first touched down in Lady Lake, lifting roofs off homes and overturning mobile homes.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
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Unbelievably, the referee listened to Prince Fahad, before agreeing with him and overturning the goal.—
Jonathan Thompson,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
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The historic designation effectively saved the building from demolition, but only for three years, at which point the brothers were no longer bound by any restrictions on razing the home to the ground.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2026
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Mertensotto Field While the new municipal campus is at the same site as the current city hall building, new construction would include razing the baseball field known as Mertensotto Field at Civic Center Park.—
Elliot Mann,
Twin Cities,
25 May 2026
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“Overthrowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrowing. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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