overturn
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If the three judges in the Court of Appeal choose to overturn her convictions, there are two options: a retrial or acquittal.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Over two days, three judges at the Court of Appeal in Melbourne will hear two appeals: Patterson's attempt to overturn her conviction and the prosecution's demand for a stiffer sentence.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who could possibly overturn the commission’s decision on the grounds of national interest or national security.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Cuban regularly engages online with people struggling to get care, pay for a medication or overturn a denial.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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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This discovery overturns a long accepted assumption and suggests a new explanation for gallium's remarkably low melting point.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
In general VAR overturns, Liverpool have had six interventions against them.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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
A bear that overturns your trash can and figures out how to get your leftovers isn't "adapting"; it's just repurposing a behavior that evolved in its natural or ancestral environment.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 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
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A large photo shows emergency crews near the overturned train lying in shrubs next to the railway.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
His conviction was overturned in 2022 when blood evidence ruled him out as the perpetrator.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Chairs had been knocked over and an overturned television lay at her feet.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Across the street, on the stone docks, was a row of overturned fishing boats draped with nets spread out to dry.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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The broader lesson is that the main forces governing Atlantic overturning may not remain constant throughout Earth's history.
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
Ashley Baxter said he was "baffled, disappointed and outraged" by the situation and said his council would explore ways of overturning the decision.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Interior Department finalized the changes to its regulations last week, overturning five decades of precedent in how the law is interpreted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
With an unexpected shove from below, I ended up tumbling into the storage room, overturning a galvanized bucket with a god-awful clamor.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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