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topple

[top-uhl] / ˈtɒp əl /


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The question was whether a large-scale attack would work and possibly topple the regime.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Six others tried and failed to topple her.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Back in March, Kerr had announced a plan dubbed Project 222, an audacious promise to slice 2.22 seconds off his personal best and topple the record, held since 1999 by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

A cliff averaging one foot a year might actually not do anything dramatic for 20 years, and then a 20-foot collapse will abruptly topple in one go.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

“If only they would knuckle walk, they wouldn’t topple so often.”

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

A Silicon Valley enclave topples Miami island as the most expensive U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

At another dance, he gets his spurs entangled in his partner’s skirts and topples to the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

It topples over, it knocks the next one over and the next one over, and it all goes really quickly.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2023

You look so shocked when a dog topples your precious kid over!

From Seattle Times Jun. 18, 2023

And then, she topples over like a tree cut down wif an axe.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

At the end of January, Storm Kristin toppled thousands of electricity and telecom poles across central Portugal, cutting power and communications to hundreds of thousands of people - some for weeks.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Boats have toppled pilings, and hard landings have cracked sterns.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Aparcedo and her family spent three years in a shelter following the floods before being relocated to a public housing project — which toppled in the June earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Soon after she was toppled, an interim government took charge.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Isobel picks up a potted violet that has toppled in the wake of the falling books and places it back upon its shelf.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Back home, “Rein Me In,” a springy collaboration with the U.K. rocker Sam Fender, is now the country’s longest-running No. 1 male-female duet, toppling Jay-Z and Rihanna’s “Umbrella.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

She is already the highest-rated woman in England, and the sight of her toppling much older and more experienced men and women has become the norm.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

In one of his first television interviews after taking power, Sharaa said he remembered Abu Omar when he entered Damascus victorious after toppling Assad in December 2024.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Suddenly there’s interest from a yes-chef-centric prestige drama called “The Boar,” as well as the return of an old eating disorder that has our heroine sneaking off to the bathroom, in danger of toppling everything.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

He seemed totally out of it, losing his balance, nearly toppling over onto his side.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin




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