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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitchpole
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His ideas precipitated a tectonic crisis of political legitimacy and unleashed a series of continent-wide wars, sometimes featuring millenarian protocommunist sects like the Anabaptists, who sought to overthrow the social order.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Over the past two decades, officials in Caracas have also repeatedly accused exiles in the city of orchestrating dozens of plots to overthrow the socialist revolution.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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In Bangladesh, which saw its government toppled by mass protests in 2024, 53% of the population is under 30.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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Could Iran end up like Libya, where a NATO air campaign in 2011 helped topple a decades-old dictatorship, but paved the way for the disintegration of the Libyan state into a thicket of rival factions and warring militias?—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Place a clean sheet of parchment paper (the same size as the cake) on top of cake and, holding pan and parchment together, flip over in one swift motion to invert cake onto parchment.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 Apr. 2026
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An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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That led to the Saints to overset the edge or overrun the ball carrier, creating huge cutback lanes.—
Lance Reisland,
cleveland,
23 Dec. 2022
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McGovern will often overset shaded defensive linemen, which opens up the inside move for defenders.—
John Owning,
Dallas News,
1 June 2020
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That inefficiency brought his pitch count up to 78 pitches twice through the Guardians’ batting order, and Roberts pulled him when the lineup turned over again.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
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Matthews said the recovered remains were turned over to the coroner’s office for identification.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Pitchpole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitchpole. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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