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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

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

I felt arms catch me as my feet tangled in the stool and I began to topple to the floor.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

The creature topples over, a flailing arm sending a pyramid of golden apples spilling to the dirt.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

Japan's national broadcaster NHK reports numerous accounts of trees being toppled by strong winds throughout Nago city in Okinawa, while a car was found overturned and leaking oil in a parking lot.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Like others in the regime, Luka seemingly vanished overnight in December 2024 when Assad was toppled, leaving a trail of unanswered questions and demands for justice that many fear will never be realised.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The fate of Iran’s Jewish community—like that of its many other minority groups—has varied since the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah and brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

As the models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep toppling brutal problems, they have done something no less improbable: They have turned me into a math person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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

And this show is really about seeing the rebellion of young teenage girls and how they are sort of key to the inside resistance of toppling this regime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

Where Ess had always been ungainly, tripping over the air and toppling when she ran, Loo was strong, surefooted.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder