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But when Swaggart caught wind of the tryst, he saw an opportunity to topple his rival and took the matter to the Assemblies of God, the church fellowship both preachers belonged to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

European football looks like an outlier, struggling to gain enough support to topple him.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

NHK aired footage from elsewhere in the southwestern Kumamoto region on Kyushu island showing several blazes, damaged bridges, a derailed cargo train and a number of houses threatening to topple over.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Another flaw: “soft-story” buildings, where the ground floor is flimsier than the upper floors, making it easier for it to topple in a quake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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

“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

But after a brush with death — a bookshelf she’s assembling topples on her — she’s inspired to take more action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024

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

The following year, generational unrest shook and sometimes toppled governments from Nepal and Madagascar to Morocco and Peru.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

That figure toppled the number of cases reported in all of 2025, and some public health experts believe it may be an undercount.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

But the August 26 disaster also came just ahead of the anniversary of last year's September 8-9 youth-driven anti-corruption protests that toppled the previous government.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

Euwe, in grandmasterly fashion, thoroughly outplayed Bobby until they reached the twentieth move, at which point Bobby, realizing that his position was hopeless, toppled his king in resignation.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Junior transport minister, Kier Mather said removing the masts had reduced the risk of them toppling on to and detonating the bombs.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Saturday's celebrations mark the 115th anniversary of the toppling of China's Qing dynasty and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

San Diego hit 100 degrees, toppling a record of 97 degrees set in 1987.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

Jesper was tempted to pretend to faint, but he settled for the effect of men toppling to the ground all around him.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo