capsize
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When these icebergs capsize, they clash violently with the “mother” glacier.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Their crews are at risk if the ships are damaged, and the vessels could capsize if they are in the vicinity of giant ice chunks breaking off glaciers, a process called calving.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The department is continuing to investigate what caused the boat to capsize, and to search for the two passengers who remain missing and are presumed dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
“The supply shocks from either would already rock the boat; both together would capsize global markets like a perfect storm,” said Raj.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Yet Congolese pirogues are made of such dense wood if they capsize they sink like a rock.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Until that date is set we can only quote what Helly tells Mark S. before he turns on himself and capsizes our expectations.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
It is the latest in a string of migrant boat capsizes off Tunisia's coast in the last few days, with five others sinking in the past four days.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2023
“I’d sum up our season as a wild ride. It has had everything: crashes, capsizes, broken bones, collisions, you name it we’ve been there,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
In the film’s fablelike opening montage, we see a Sudanese couple, Bol and Rial, escape their homeland in an overflowing raft; as their boat capsizes in a storm, they lose their daughter.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
Shop signs swing toward the heat from their brackets; a potted hedge comes sliding across the rubble and capsizes.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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One man was killed and two people were hospitalized after their fishing boat struck rocks and capsized beneath the Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Rescuers are continuing their search for 18 passengers of a ferry which capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Passengers said the boat had begun taking on water before it capsized about four nautical miles into the journey.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
The captain of an overloaded boat that capsized in New York Harbor earlier this month, killing a woman and her 5-month-old infant, has been arrested by federal authorities and faces deportation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cinderella’s slippers, which were airman’s boots painted silver, were capsized side by side under a golden throne.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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Although Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth, direct evidence of glacial earthquakes caused by capsizing icebergs there has been elusive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Before the U.S. military strikes, he said, his main concerns were capsizing, drowning and arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
In one of the worst months, in December 2021, more than 20 migrants drowned in several capsizing incidents off the Malaysian coastline.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
"Unpredictable weather is leading to more boats capsizing, especially small fishing vessels that are going further out and are not built for such long, rough trips," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
For an hour they labored to keep the water from capsizing the Caird.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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