upend
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It explains why smart, humble and even paranoid leaders aren’t immune to being blindsided, and it feels especially relevant now as AI threatens to upend many business models, while quantum computing awaits us all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
They were often, by this point, already convinced something big was coming that would upend our social order, if not our entire understanding of the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
They are still hurting, still missing the loved ones they lost, and they must surely be forever on alert for similar devastations that could come and upend their lives again.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Meta is moving to upend its fact-checking operations just as generative artificial intelligence has muddied the waters of the digital world.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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
“It’s kind of an investment that you can’t really get to without either borrowing against it or selling, which then upends your life. For me, it just doesn’t feel like it’s liquid enough.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
His starting point upends the usual China-debt story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Jennifer Cowan, chief executive of Connections for Children, an agency that helps Westside and South Bay families navigate child-care options and subsidies, said losing spots upends family routines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"It really upends a theory that says that symbolic rule induction is not possible without linguistic capacities," says Kean.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Now he opens the bag and upends its contents onto his palm.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The renewed rebellion upended a four-year truce that seemed to have settled the 2020-22 Tigrayan war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The party, held in the Rendezvous Hotel, was hosted by BGC Group, a U.S.-listed brokerage who has seen its fortunes boom since the Iran war upended global energy markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The extreme heat has been linked to tens of thousands of excess deaths across Europe, upended daily life for millions in ill-adapted regions and disrupted the economy through drought and low river levels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Attacks by Iran on Qatar’s production network have upended that supply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
My eyes followed the line of her outstretched arm to the upended clothing and shoe racks.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
His acknowledgements cite the help of OpenAI models and says that he welcomes any questions about the role of AI, which is upending his entire field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
A record-breaking El Nino will likely force the world's top chefs to rethink their menus ahead of droughts, floods and heatwaves upending global food systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Ford made their name with the micro-indie, micro-focused “Test Pattern,” an act of upending as it dissected an interracial relationship’s fault lines in a moment of crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Life has a way of upending even the best financial plans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
It is a tower that stands tall and upending like a good soldier, for nearly four hundred years, not wobbling or falling down.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
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