as in to capsize
to turn on one's side or upside down
afraid that my kayak would overturn
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as in veto
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as in overthrow
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Recent Examples of overturn
Andy Rose, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
The Tesla overturned, throwing both the woman and her 26-year-old passenger from the vehicle, before catching fire.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
In a bold statement on reproductive rights, especially given the controversial Supreme Court overturn of Roe vs. Wade back in 2022, Area collaborated with Tinder for its fall 2024 show this year.
—Kanika Talwar, WWD, 30 Sep. 2024
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Verb
But a proposal to make that guidance apply explicitly to women’s athletics was shelved, and the broader rules were overturned last month by a federal judge.
—Andy Rose, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
The Tesla overturned, throwing both the woman and her 26-year-old passenger from the vehicle, before catching fire.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
That led to the overturn of Roe v. Wade and other conservative advances.
—Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
In a bold statement on reproductive rights, especially given the controversial Supreme Court overturn of Roe vs. Wade back in 2022, Area collaborated with Tinder for its fall 2024 show this year.
—Kanika Talwar, WWD, 30 Sep. 2024
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The Coast Guard received the call that the vessel was capsized and people were in the water in a shallow area of Biscayne Bay off northern Key Largo at 6:50 p.m.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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In October, at least 78 individuals died after a boat capsized on Lake Kivu in the Congo.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
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One of the knocks on his records, according to the group, was his veto of a bill that would have placed a warning label about air pollution on gas stoves.—
Andrew Sheeler,
Sacramento Bee,
30 Jan. 2025
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So his veto likely would just be a temporary reprieve for those students.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
Orlando Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2025
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Eagles upset Chiefs' three-peat dreams The Eagles' 40-22 victory at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans Sunday denied the Chiefs from becoming the first NFL team to win three consecutive Super Bowls.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025
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Charles Lindstrom, a 6-2 center for the Grove City basketball team, did a remarkable job in stopping Litchfield’s towering center, Bob McGee, as the Grove City cagers upset Litchfield 49-39 Tuesday at the Grove City floor.—
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Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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There were two parts of the override campaign that were critical to its success.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the veto override.—
Skyler Swisher,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Jan. 2025
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The directive prompted a revolt at the Justice Department that burst into public view when Danielle Sassoon, the acting head of the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York, resigned in protest rather than file a motion seeking to drop the case.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Trump had his first big flop Punctuating the week was the Trump administration’s first big policy setback: the abrupt freeze, and then unfreezing, of federal grant funds amid a public revolt.—
Will Weissert,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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The wealthy were not allowed to simply hoard their wealth, park it in an offshore haven, and escape catastrophe by sailing away from a collapsing society on a superyacht.—
Brian Klaas,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The building resembles a doll house after the entire front wall collapsed and exposed the insides of the damaged interior.—
Tareq Al Hilou,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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Congress should press the brakes on the revolution that has given Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans an outsized role in raising our kids and require that users of social media be age 18 or older.—
Rich Lowry,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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Students and their supporters say their goal was never to topple Mr. Vucic.—
Andrew Higgins,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Gaetz, once a key surrogate for the governor in the early years of his administration, became a critic during the Republican presidential primary as DeSantis sought to topple Trump as the GOP’s presidential nominee.—
Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Overturn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overturn. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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