upheaval
Example Sentences
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Despite the upheaval, the colonies did not collapse.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
For many of the students, the fire followed the upheaval of the pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
Nothing of that great regional upheaval greedily foretold by the prophets of Western decline.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
From Venezuela to Iran, 2026 has been the year of oil upheaval, and that certainly helped energy stocks pop.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Firstly, even though Australia’s climate changed some 45,000 years ago, it wasn’t a very remarkable upheaval.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing upheaval
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Mayhem! Chaos! Pandemonium!
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Bridge to Terabithia
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