topple

“Dirty Harry” was condemned as racist and even fascist in its day; Dirty Marky paints a crowd-pleasing picture of how disregarding the rulebook could help topple the Ku Klux Klan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

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

Even a toddler would know that the pen would topple over.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Mami and Baba and Izzie and Papi stand around me like bowling pins about to topple over.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

“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

The clash with Stanley that topples Blanche’s mind after Stella has gone into labor is just as freshly conceived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

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

She scrabbles across the floor and leaps onto Walter, licking his face and wagging so hard she topples backward.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

At the end of September, in fact, a powerful nor’easter toppled a huge tree on my property, thankfully missing my house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

Dozens of young people congregated at Nepal's burnt-out parliament building on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Four years later, veteran Bay Area Rep. Mike Honda was toppled by fellow Democrat Ro Khanna, now viewed as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

The top part of the snowman toppled off.

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

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

The Oceanside Harbor registered 98 degrees on Sunday, toppling the record of 97 degrees set in 1953.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 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

They took the capital unopposed after a lightning offensive that swept across Afghanistan, toppling government forces in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal of US-led troops.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Trey leans as he lunges, toppling him off-balance.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes