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
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Weinstein, 74, was initially convicted of raping actress Jessica Mann in 2020, but a judge overturned the verdict.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2026
Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Even with that 70% overturn rate, Segal didn’t have the worst opening-weekend umpiring outing.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Always insisting on his innocence on the Mann accusations and every other one, Weinstein was found guilty in 2020 of raping the actress, but that conviction was overturned by a higher court in 2024.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Weinstein, 74, was initially convicted of raping actress Jessica Mann in 2020, but a judge overturned the verdict.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2026
Noun
And far worse if a postseason game is decided by an overturn that, due to the margin of error, might have been flat wrong.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Even with that 70% overturn rate, Segal didn’t have the worst opening-weekend umpiring outing.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overturn
Verb
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Only Friduss and her mother, who was rescued clinging to a life preserver, survived when the boat soon afterward capsized and threw its ten occupants into the lake.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
14 May 2026
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Earlier in the day, a college student drowned after a boat capsized on Little Emily Lake, about 130 miles southwest of Lake Vermilion.—
Anthony Bettin,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
Noun
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The bill is now on the governor's desk, awaiting a signature or veto.—
Chierstin Roth,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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There are currently four vacant seats on the court, but they cannot be filled, because the government has retained a veto until the new law kicks in, after the elections.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Built in 1882, Iolani Palace is where the last ruling monarchs – King Kalakaua, his wife Queen Kapiolani and his sister Queen Liliuokalani – lived until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
18 May 2026
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Four waves of protest since 2017 have explicitly demanded its overthrow.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
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But the most important election result for Jeffries that year may have come months earlier, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a twenty-eight-year-old bartender with no previous electoral experience, upset Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary for New York’s Fourteenth Congressional District.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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This is a precarious tightrope to walk, with bond investors primed to sell if there’s a hint the biggest player in the market upsets the apple cart.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
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If an override did occur and was reversed by a manager who trusted the system's track record, the structure is actively discouraging the judgment it was built to include.—
Tiffany Archer,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Annually update first responder interaction plans, access to manual vehicle override systems, two-way communication links with 30-second response times and training requirements to ensure safe and timely interactions.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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After the fallout over the Epstein files’ revelations on Mandelson, Rayner led a lawmakers’ revolt to force the government to cede control to Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee to decide which documents should be released into the public domain.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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Trump is facing something of a revolt at home.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
14 May 2026
Verb
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The weekend, for all its promise, tends to collapse into logistics, half-finished to-do lists and the quiet companionship of two people watching the same screen.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Intellectual humility — the willingness to update your beliefs when the machine pushes back, rather than digging in or collapsing entirely.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
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The appropriate remedy is congressional overruling of the Marquette case so as to allow the states to regulate loans to their own citizens.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Apr. 2026
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In recent years, the court’s conservative majority overruling of major, longstanding precedents has become a defining feature of Roberts’ tenure.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Overturn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overturn. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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