upheaval
Example Sentences
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Although raised-field agriculture eventually ended -- likely because of population decline and social upheaval after European colonization -- this does not diminish the effectiveness of these systems.
From Science Daily
Now that even CEOs wear hoodies and sneakers, it’s difficult to grasp what an upheaval the introduction of Casual Fridays was.
Like many other Romanov possessions, it shares the upheaval of Russia's tumultuous history over the last century.
From Barron's
In Ian McEwan’s “What We Can Know,” war, sea-level rise and other upheavals have left humanity scraping by and unsure of itself.
Twitter has been in a state of upheaval since Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, purchased the site he uses to communicate with his roughly 133 million followers on the site.
From Washington Post
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