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Recent Examples of overthrown
Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026
The coach pointed to his chest in reference to Lawrence’s overthrown pass.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
With the runner already at second base, Williams’ first pitch was an overthrown fastball that went to the backstop, allowing Jose Altuve to move to third base immediately.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
His association with the overthrown Batista government was through the police and not political, a distinction that may have spared him his life and certainly aided his relatively early release from prison.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026
The coach pointed to his chest in reference to Lawrence’s overthrown pass.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
With the runner already at second base, Williams’ first pitch was an overthrown fastball that went to the backstop, allowing Jose Altuve to move to third base immediately.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overthrown
Adjective
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During his court appearance, the suspect wore the handcuffs that belonged to the fallen officer.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
20 Feb. 2026
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However, fallen mulberries are messy, so avoid planting near sidewalks, driveways, or parking areas.—
Anne Readel,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Each teams gets two challenges and retains their challenges if a call is overturned.—
Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Both men spent years in prison — about a decade each — before appellate courts overturned their convictions.—
Tony Plohetski,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Feb. 2026
Verb
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By the time Saturday’s competition was completed, by the time Johnson vanquished San Antonio Spurs rookie forward Carter Bryant in the championship round, the charisma of the Bay Area product had enveloped the Los Angeles Clippers’ arena to the degree that he was being embraced as one of their own.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
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With no Texas Tech — the team the Longhorns vanquished in the WCWS finals a year ago — on the nonconference schedule like last season, a home series with Oklahoma April 10-12 edges out a home series with Texas A&M March 27-29 for the hottest ticket of the season.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The newborn daughter of a woman killed in a Queens house fire was found dead in the collapsed home two days later, FDNY official said Wednesday.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Los Angeles County Fire Department on Wednesday rescued three people who were trapped under a collapsed retaining wall in Lennox.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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But Kennedy, in Senate testimony, has argued that a link between vaccines and autism has not been disproved.—
Matt Brown,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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But Kennedy, in Senate testimony, has argued that a link between vaccines and autism has not been disproved.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Americans have been skeptical of brown-skinned people since the days of the Alamo, always fearful Latinos are one step away from insurrection and thus must always be subjugated.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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It’s subjugated to a larger sense of what’s called the universal destination of all goods.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Before the third siren at seven o’clock Chitol parked his bicycle alongside hundreds of others like it, his identified by a faded yellow piece of his wife’s old sari around the handlebars, which doubled as a duster.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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The trembling bass mixed with faded talk-raps (somewhere between fakemink’s blurry party reports and SoundCloud-era Nav’s fame-hungry melodrama) feels like listening to Mustard’s pop-rap formula from inside the club bathroom.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
19 Feb. 2026
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He was scheduled to pitch two innings but was pulled with one on and one out in the second inning having thrown 36 pitches.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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Sage was thrown into an all boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Overthrown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrown. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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