overturn
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The resistance efforts haven’t let up: A new grassroots organization called Box Elder Accountability Referendum filed for a process to allow voters to overturn the commission’s approval.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
It is rare for regulators to drop lawsuits or overturn their predecessors’ enforcement decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
If confirmed, these hints would overturn the theory, called the Standard Model, that has dominated particle physics for 50 years.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
She also urged the court to overturn the stalking order.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
A critic, Ignatius Pardies, called Newton’s paper ‘a most ingenious hypothesis’, ‘an extraordinary hypothesis’ which, if true, would overturn the foundations of optics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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