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capsize

[kap-sahyz, kap-sahyz] / ˈkæp saɪz, kæpˈsaɪz /


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“Large breaking waves can cause injury, wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats near shore.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

When these icebergs capsize, they clash violently with the “mother” glacier.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Their crews are at risk if the ships are damaged, and the vessels could capsize if they are in the vicinity of giant ice chunks breaking off glaciers, a process called calving.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

But survivors then told the BBC that coastguards had caused the migrant boat to capsize following a botched attempt to tow it.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

But though the dory rocked back and forth with the swell of them, the whales never came so close that the boat might capsize.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Until that date is set we can only quote what Helly tells Mark S. before he turns on himself and capsizes our expectations.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025

It is the latest in a string of migrant boat capsizes off Tunisia's coast in the last few days, with five others sinking in the past four days.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2023

More recently, he took home the prize for “Triangle of Sadness,” a three-part comic epic in which a superyacht capsizes, stranding a subsection of the global elite on a deserted island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

The American boat had a number of capsizes and crashes, including one in which wing trimmer Paul Campbell-James broke a leg.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2022

But if The Dessoug capsizes or breaks apart, none of those letters will be found.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

One man was killed and two people were hospitalized after their fishing boat struck rocks and capsized beneath the Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The reported 15-month turnaround of the Kang Kon after it capsized illustrates how Kim is giving priority to the modernization of his Soviet-era navy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Footage from the scene broadcast by Turkish television showed the capsized ferry with passengers wearing life jackets sitting atop its orange hull.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Rescuers are continuing their search for 18 passengers of a ferry which capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

The bus bobbed to the surface, along with a couple of capsized, half-melted canoes.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

The rip currents and massive surf are capable of capsizing small boats, knocking people off jetties and pulling swimmers out to sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Most of these events are likely glacial earthquakes due to capsizing icebergs.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Kitson told the Kiskadee Watch, a Guyana news outlet, that he fears his wife and their daughter died in the capsizing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

Before the U.S. military strikes, he said, his main concerns were capsizing, drowning and arrest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“I don’t want you capsizing in a squall.”

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White


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