topple
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European football looks like an outlier, struggling to gain enough support to topple him.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
James is every ambitious director threatening to topple this town in a narcissistic quest to create the ultimate special effects epic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Investors have bet new drugs can topple Merck’s Keytruda, but the evidence so far points to something smaller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Washington on Thursday threw its support behind embattled Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, offering emergency assistance while warning against attempts to topple the government.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
In a split second, I make a calculation of how this ice structure might topple if I mess with it right now.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
A Silicon Valley enclave topples Miami island as the most expensive U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Ninety-five percent of the building, the structure is sound and intact…There is no way that this corner of a small extension all of a sudden topples this building.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
"It is not like a pencil balancing on its end that when touched topples over."
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
You look so shocked when a dog topples your precious kid over!
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
I sit up abruptly, and Bob topples off my stomach.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
No meter is safe, it seems, especially not the one that was toppled over and left wedged between the pharmacy and an S&L.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Soon after she was toppled, an interim government took charge.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
One of the memorable episodes was Kitten Kong, in which a giant feline toppled the Post Office Tower.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Youth-led protests in Bangladesh in 2024 toppled the government of Sheikh Hasina and led to her ouster.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Then she toppled off the dam and into the pond.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
The exterior walls of the 17th century Kumamoto Castle, in the city's centre, came toppling down in a plume of dust.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
President Ahmed al-Sharaa has been rebooting Syria's international credentials and seeking to revive his struggling country after toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 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
These fancy Mets are built to win now, to make a serious run at toppling the extravagant Dodgers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
It was rather frightening, this vast sculpture of a witch and a wizard sitting on ornately carved thrones, looking down at the Ministry workers toppling out of fireplaces below them.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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