topple

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

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

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

Keely Hodgkinson says this year's London Diamond League could be a "battle of the world records" as she seeks to topple athletics' longest-standing mark on home soil.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Some of the buildings in this neighborhood—her mother had called it Vista Heights—looked like they’d topple over with one good gust of wind.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

“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 staggers a little, and a bowl of hot vegetable soup topples off her tray and lands on my sneakers.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

They notified coastal managers, and two days later, at about 5 a.m., more than 200 tons of the cliff toppled onto the beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The statement said the raids occurred in four neighbourhoods, two of which have populations from toppled ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

In Germany, a democratic revolution toppled the monarchy in 1918, bringing into existence the fragile Weimar Republic, which communists in Moscow hoped would soon succumb to a communist revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Some fans told the BBC there was potential for a crush outside Saturday's Scotland v Haiti fixture and reported barriers being toppled by the mass of fans.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

I picked one of them up, and the weight nearly toppled me.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Sharaa, the former leader of an Islamist rebel faction, took power after toppling longtime authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

In December 2006, thousands of Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia under the cover of American drones with the aim of toppling the courts just six months after they had taken over.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

“Those operational achievements that we had during the campaign actually did not accumulate into a strategic gain of toppling the regime or of depriving it of strategic capabilities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

She screamed and flailed, toppling sideways off the mound.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan