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overturn

[oh-ver-turn, oh-ver-turn] / ˌoʊ vərˈtɜrn, ˈoʊ vərˌtɜrn /


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Former supermodel Naomi Campbell won a legal challenge on Thursday to overturn a five-year ban on being a charity trustee after a panel accepted she had been the victim of deception.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Developer NorthPoint then sued the township to overturn the decision, an action still being litigated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Sri Lanka captain also had to overturn a caught-behind decision on 99 when Overton was the bowler again.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The decision sought to overturn an order issued by the U.S.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 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

The ruling overturns a case that had held sway for 91 years.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

"From the beginning, we knew these bones were exceptional because of their minute size. It is equally impressive how the study of this animal overturns global ideas on ornithopod dinosaur evolution," he says.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 3, 2026

The Federal Supreme Court therefore partially overturns the contested award and refers the case back to the CAS for a new ruling, taking into account the probative value of the audio-visual recording in question.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

The decision overturns the seizure of Nexperia by Karremans’ ministry from its Chinese owner, Wingtech Technology, late in September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

Imagine the difficulty of listening to, and then accepting, a truth that overturns everything you believe about the world.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

The row re-emerged last month after a court case in which a ruling by the Parades Commission was overturned, and a fresh application was lodged.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

That conviction was overturned in 2021 because of a non-prosecution agreement struck with a previous prosecutor.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Wise previously attempted to ban the insurers from issuing new policies, but a state judge overturned that order in 2025, the insurers said in their lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

US federal judge Christopher Cooper previously ordered Trump's name removed from the exterior and overturned the board's decision to rename the institution.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

But when Napoleon overturned the French Republic and declared himself omnipotent military dictator, again just as Adams had predicted would happen, Jefferson quickly shifted his position to accommodate the new reality.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

A federal magistrate judge subsequently recommended overturning the conviction due to ineffective defense counsel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Together, the evidence from several ocean basins connected movements of the Southern Ocean front with changes in Atlantic temperature layers and overturning circulation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

The appeals court did not rule on the ultimate merits of the case but concluded the administration had not shown it was likely to succeed in overturning the injunction at this stage.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Together, those processes can make the water heavy enough to sink into the deep ocean, helping to drive the AMOC's overturning flow.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

You picked up little tricks: overturning your boots each morning in case a scorpion or some other critter had crept inside; shaking out your blanket for rattlesnakes before lying down at night.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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