topple
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A Nobel Prize-winning academic economist, Sargent helped topple the original Keynesian model of inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Six others tried and failed to topple her.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
NHK aired footage from elsewhere in the southwestern Kumamoto region on Kyushu island showing several blazes, damaged bridges, a derailed cargo train and a number of houses threatening to topple over.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Runner Josh Kerr transformed his entire life to cover the distance in 3 minutes 42.66 seconds last week to topple a mark that had stood for 27 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was just a matter of whether it would topple over on the inside of the rim and into the net or outside the rim.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
A Silicon Valley enclave topples Miami island as the most expensive U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Plus, AI topples a 80 year-old math problem, the Brockmans sit for an interview and physical AI gets its due.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
"It is not like a pencil balancing on its end that when touched topples over."
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
You look so shocked when a dog topples your precious kid over!
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
The world topples around me, and I’m suddenly staring at the room from the floor.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
Boats have toppled pilings, and hard landings have cracked sterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
She recently toppled France’s No. 3-rated player, grandmaster Marc’Andria Maurizzi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Japan's national broadcaster NHK reports numerous accounts of trees being toppled by strong winds throughout Nago city in Okinawa, while a car was found overturned and leaking oil in a parking lot.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Youth-led protests in Bangladesh in 2024 toppled the government of Sheikh Hasina and led to her ouster.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The men began to fear that the sails would freeze up and cake with ice, becoming heavier and heavier until the boat toppled upside down.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
I sway to the left, then to the right, before finally toppling forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
As the models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep toppling brutal problems, they have done something no less improbable: They have turned me into a math person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
They took the capital unopposed after a lightning offensive that swept across Afghanistan, toppling government forces in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal of US-led troops.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Suddenly there’s interest from a yes-chef-centric prestige drama called “The Boar,” as well as the return of an old eating disorder that has our heroine sneaking off to the bathroom, in danger of toppling everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Finally he stood up like a bolt, toppling his bench over, staring at Jeanne and pointing.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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