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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
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Ten years after the mass shooting, Central Florida is uniting to remember the fallen angels who died that night while showing that love is stronger than hate.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 June 2026
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Trees planted too close to power lines may result in outages or safety hazards from fallen branches.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
10 June 2026
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Original sentence was overturned The ruling is the latest twist in a case that has already been through appeals, a prior resentencing and, more recently, a review by the state’s pardon board.—
Tom Olsen,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2026
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France overturned a 26-21 loss to New Zealand in the pool stage on Friday to win their final thanks to Celian Pouzelgues' try with 31 seconds left.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
Verb
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The easy pick is San Antonio, which just vanquished the all-world defending-champion Thunder.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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After seeing his parents vanquished, young Adam is quickly sent by the Sorceress (Morena Baccarin) with his all-powerful sword whirling away to Earth.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Heavy equipment had to be brought on site to remove parts of the collapsed roof.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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The collapsed building in the historic Wilhelminian style contained rental and vacation apartments, police said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
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The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture in geometry.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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Specifically, OpenAI said in an announcement published on its website that its models disproved a central conjecture in an area of discrete geometry tied to Paul Erdős’s planar unit distance problem, a famously stubborn question first posed in 1946.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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In a country like India, subjugated early in the history of capitalist imperialism, and then bullied after independence by the West, a degree of self-renunciation and collective sacrifice was widely understood to be requisite to economic and political self-strengthening.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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This campy, reality-shifting comedy series questions what would happen if a flaming misogynist woke up in a world that was completely matriarchal and subjugated men based on their gender.—
Madeleine Janz,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Pinch Off Faded Flowers or Cut Back To ensure continuous production, Anna Ohler, the owner of Bright Lane Gardens, suggests pinching off any faded flowers, including the seed pod.—
Jane Kim,
The Spruce,
9 June 2026
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The cream color pops against faded black jeans, as in Hudson’s outfit, but it can also be paired with blue denim, skirts, or linen pants.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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Eldest daughter Abby is recently divorced, and coming to grips with being a single mother, while Paige is an ambitious NYC publicist thrown completely out of her element in Wyoming.—
Cat Cardenas,
Variety,
10 June 2026
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In November 2024, five months into his third stint as Mexico’s national team coach, Aguirre was hit on the top of the head by a full can of beer thrown by a fan as the final whistle blew on a loss to Honduras in San Pedro Sula.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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“Overthrown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrown. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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