overturn
Example Sentences
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After ten years of gathering and studying data, an international team of physicists that included researchers from Rutgers has overturned a long-standing idea about a mysterious type of particle.
From Science Daily
The Supreme Court unanimously overturned the firm’s criminal conviction in 2005.
The evidence of sound on the technology was not enough to overturn the on-field decision.
From BBC
Together they played key roles in the successful legal fight to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage, which helped lead to the U.S.
He also helped overturn Proposition 8, California’s brief ban on gay marriage.
From Los Angeles Times
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