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Fortune recently spoke with cofounders Shipman and Renahan to learn more about their insights and predictions for their business and the plant-based food industry after a year in which grocery shopping was completely upended.

From Fortune

Even as the pandemic upends the restaurant world, this reform can and must happen.

From Eater

It also shows that the same disruptive sentiments that upended American politics in recent years are now taking aim at the financial system.

It’s a huge understatement to say the pandemic upended everything.

The disease’s terrifying ability to so swiftly upend the rhythms and rituals of everyday life only added to the war’s larger social disruptions.

It is a revolutionary story, which threatens to upend the world as we know it.

It would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years.

In August, Sen. Ted Cruz linked the need to upend the IRS to its abuse of power.

[S]omething larger is going on here, which could upend everything and produce unintended consequences.

The one event that could upend that is an encore from a passive, disengaged Obama.

It is safe, as we will never meet again, and all ideas of justice will upend in the coming cataclysm.

The log plunges after him, holding him down and back till he drowns; and his whereabouts are revealed by the upend of the tree.

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On this page you'll find 292 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to upend, such as: alter, backtrack, capsize, change, convert, and evert.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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