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as in toppling
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as in overrunning
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Statue toppling riots… and the very real possibility of death.
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Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton missed the entire 2025-26 campaign to recover from a torn Achilles, but the Pacers were one game away from toppling the Oklahoma City Thunder and winning the 2024-25 championship before Haliburton got hurt.
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In the 10th minute, Neil El Aynaoui pilfered the ball from Ryan Christie, then nearly capitalized on the ensuing counterattack, finding free space in front of an open net but overrunning Azzedine Ounahi’s cross.
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Homeless people overrunning the city.
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That balance is now inverting, and the shift is a signal of a maturing industry.
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Windsor-Smith’s storytelling shifted the typical narrative responsibility of text onto the imagery, inverting the usual comic book reading experience.
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Tory Burch Sublime Shimmer Ideal for weddings, summer parties and evening dinners, adding subtle luminosity without overpowering your look.
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The overpowering scent of the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) is meant to trick carrion beetles and flies to visit and pollinate the flowers.
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Forces — some visible, some harder to see — are upending literature and education itself.
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Iran attacked a cargo ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, possibly upending President Donald Trump‘s diplomatic end to the war with Iran.
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Digital Realty already began demolishing the inside of the building, so Gray believed the agreement was set.
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But everyday people expressed their political outrage time and again, throwing rocks at and demolishing the houses of government officials, torching the king’s ships and forts and, eventually, marching to battle.
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More than 160 years earlier, Galileo's telescopic observations had revealed mountains, valleys, and craters on the lunar surface, overturning the ancient notion that heavenly bodies were perfect spheres.
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The ruling is the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions that have loosened campaign finance restrictions, overturning a 2001 precedent that upheld the spending limits.
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In recent weeks, Lebanon proved to be a particularly sensitive flashpoint, with Israel continuing attacks in southern Lebanon and its ground troops razing towns and villages.
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The historic designation effectively saved the building from demolition, but only for three years, at which point the brothers were no longer bound by any restrictions on razing the home to the ground.
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“Overthrowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrowing. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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