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Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, a wonkish technocrat aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, upended the race for mayor by launching a last-minute bid to unseat incumbent Karen Bass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
Airbus kept to its target of delivering a record 870 commercial aircraft this year, beating the 863 it handed over to airlines in 2019 before the Covid pandemic upended the industry.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Its operations have likewise been upended by Houthi attacks, which on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The rally in consumer staples also upended a longstanding market dynamic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Their room was a pitiful mess of clothes, wet towels, orange peel, torn-up pieces of a comic arranged around a sheet of paper, upended chairs partly covered by blankets and the mattresses at a slew.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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