as in defeats
failure to win a contest
the surprising overthrow of the world's top-ranked chess player
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Recent Examples of overthrows
Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Fields, who went 7-of-11 on the day, had a few overthrows on plays that likely were sacks.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
New York made four errors on the evening, including two overthrows that led to multiple free bases on the same play.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Fields, who went 7-of-11 on the day, had a few overthrows on plays that likely were sacks.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overthrows
Noun
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Sealing the deal averted a potential Azeri invasion to secure unfettered access after Azerbaijan’s forces inflicted heavy defeats on Armenia’s army in 2020 and 2023 and pushed 120,000 Armenians out of Nagorno-Karabakh.—
Michele Crestani,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Four of those have been defeats, including this loss to Midtjylland which saw Forest concede two more goals to set-pieces in a chaotic first half.—
Sam Joseph,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This figure motivates Butrich but also overwhelms her.—
Sabrina Weiss,
The Dial,
23 Sep. 2025
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If a disaster overwhelms state and local capacity, officials may request a presidential declaration, the agency said.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Research suggests that older adults struggle more to anticipate financial losses, have higher levels of trust for strangers and have a lower ability to detect deceptions compared with younger adults.—
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Scientific American,
8 Oct. 2025
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The trades allegedly masked hundreds of millions in investor losses.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Taking care of her niece endows the narrator with purpose; love overpowers her.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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The frosting has an artificial-sweetener flavor that overpowers everything.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
22 Aug. 2025
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The setbacks last year were against Oregon and Penn State, the latter game being in the College Football Playoff.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Oct. 2025
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Plus, the team will surely look to upgrade its starting rotation after a series of injuries and setbacks drove its early exit.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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While Piaget was certainly correct in observing that children engage in a host of unusual behaviors, my lab recently uncovered evidence that upends some long-standing assumptions about the limits of children’s logical capabilities that originated with his work.—
Celeste Kidd,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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From the onset, Phalanx is a tale that upends our own familiarity with the Xenomorph by resetting the stakes involved in understanding and combatting them.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The new work overturns that picture.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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The decision overturns a ruling by a lower-court judge in 2023 who had declared the law unconstitutional after previously blocking it from taking effect in 2021.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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If the city demolishes the building, the costs will be assessed to the property owner.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Overthrows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrows. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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