upend
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Directors had long known that the artificial-intelligence revolution would upend the technology icon’s business, but the pain came sooner than expected, leaving the company with a tough choice, according to people familiar with the discussions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
And that’s not the only history the U.S. will be seeking to upend Wednesday against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
As always, markets do not move in straight lines, and a significant bear market early in retirement could upend those plans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Lau argued that Congress could not have intended to give individual border agents such vast discretion to upend the lives of green-card holders.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
Our girls had established a strong community for themselves, and a sense of normalcy that I didn’t want to upend yet again.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Getting divorced later in life often upends retirement plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
This year, the influential retail cohort is taking a much more cautious approach as the war in Iran upends markets around the world.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
Set in 1970s San Francisco, this turn-of-the-thumbscrews-tense novel upends noir conventions, placing a drab 19-year-old telephone operator, Celia Dent, center stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
As AI upends some of their business functions, India's billion-dollar IT firms will become a key area of "vulnerability", according to Jefferies.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
The assistant director picks up the bag and unties its throat and upends a wrapped bundle into his palm.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
During the pandemic — a period when many Americans upended their lives and moved to new places where they could work remotely — rock-bottom mortgage rates allowed many people to buy houses.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Volkswagen’s traditional business model of developing cars in Germany to sell around the world has been upended by rising costs in Europe, new tariffs in the U.S., and the emergence of globally competitive Chinese technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
But the ballistic strikes -- which can reach Kyiv within just a few minutes -- have upended that.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
"Our colleagues are plugging gaps, doing the impossible, working too many hours to back-fill, are experiencing burnout and ill health and have their private lives upended," Mr Kelly said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In time the wall resembled a lunar landscape upended, pockmarked with fist-sized craters.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The sudden breakthrough suggests that China's tech prowess is rapidly narrowing the capabilities gap, upending long-held assumptions in the West that Chinese developers trail their American peers.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Forces — some visible, some harder to see — are upending literature and education itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Do that enough, and climate change could be curtailed without upending the world as we know it.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
His grandfather had fled their village in 1948 to avoid being conscripted in the civil war that was upending millions of lives.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
“That’s sickening,” Seth said, upending the bottle over his steak.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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