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as in toppling
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as in overrunning
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In Sabalenka’s quarter, the most dangerous player may be Iva Jović, the 18-year-old Californian who came within a point of toppling Gauff at the Italian Open.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
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Two rounds of swift but strong thunderstorms blew through Chicago Monday morning and afternoon, toppling a small plane at Midway Airport and leaving some power outages and damage in their wake.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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The most basic natural method for keeping weeds from overrunning your pavers is manual removal.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
16 May 2026
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Gardening apps can drain a phone battery lightning-fast, like aphids overrunning your tomatoes.—
Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
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Let the cakes cool in the pans to room temperature before running a butter knife inside the rim of the pans and inverting the cakes onto the rack.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
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This ride is wild mayhem, with two commanding launches that send you inverting and free-spinning into total bliss.—
Zachary Laks,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
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Disasters spark an outpouring of kindness between strangers, overpowering any social barriers that existed before.—
Pauline Bartolone,
NPR,
23 May 2026
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The sauces gave them just enough heat and sweetness without overpowering the potatoes themselves.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
22 May 2026
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Scenes in the rounded Tomorrowland theater will be updated, upending folky stories set in the early 1900s, the 1920s and the 1940s.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2026
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Meanwhile, Airbnb, another early breakout hit from Y Combinator, has a market cap of close to $80 billion, and CEO Brian Chesky is credited with upending the hospitality industry.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
26 May 2026
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The plan involves demolishing the building and constructing a near-replica on the same Beatties Ford Road footprint.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2026
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Indeed, back in the 1990s and 2000s, municipalities across the country were happily demolishing Brutalist eyesores made to house the poor.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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Verhoeven's protest is the immediate story, though overturning a result on a stoppage-timing dispute is historically a steep climb.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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The court annulled the CHP’s 2023 Congress, overturning a lower court’s verdict last year against claims of irregularities surrounding Özel’s election.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
25 May 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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Israel is razing and looting homes and has vowed to prevent hundreds of thousands of residents, predominantly Shiites, though also members of other religious communities, from returning.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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“Overthrowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrowing. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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