as in defeat
failure to win a contest
the surprising overthrow of the world's top-ranked chess player
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as in to overwhelm
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Recent Examples of overthrow
Nicholas D. Kristof, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
Phillips talked to her students about an excerpt of Plato’s Symposium, in which—at the beginning of time—Zeus splits each human in two in order to foil their plan to overthrow the gods.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Reuters — Romania detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia’s help, prosecutors said on Thursday, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his home had been raided as part of the investigation.
—Reuters, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
The series stars McGregor as Count Rostov, a fay member of Czarist Russia’s ruling class, who was living in comfort in his estates until the revolution of 1917 overthrew the old order.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
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Some of its members have downplayed the Holocaust, employed Nazi slogans and allegedly plotted to overthrow the government.
—Nicholas D. Kristof, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
Phillips talked to her students about an excerpt of Plato’s Symposium, in which—at the beginning of time—Zeus splits each human in two in order to foil their plan to overthrow the gods.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Reuters — Romania detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia’s help, prosecutors said on Thursday, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his home had been raided as part of the investigation.
—Reuters, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
The series stars McGregor as Count Rostov, a fay member of Czarist Russia’s ruling class, who was living in comfort in his estates until the revolution of 1917 overthrew the old order.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overthrow
Noun
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France was plunged into political chaos last year after Macron called a snap election after suffering a heavy defeat at EU elections.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2025
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The governing Liberals had appeared poised for a historic defeat, but polls indicate that Carney has recently opened up a lead over Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In the capital Naypyitaw, the quake damaged religious shrines, sending parts toppling to the ground and some homes.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Since March 14, severe weather has left a trail of destruction, toppling trees, demolishing homes, and igniting wildfires, the Associated Press reported.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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This data stored across multiple cloud environments, on-premises systems and SaaS applications has overwhelmed traditional classification methods.—
Asaf Kochan,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The threat on European alcohol overwhelmed the positive inflation news.—
Francisco Velasquez,
Quartz,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Others include the cardiac signals that control the beating of your heart, along with other signals that tell your muscles to contract.—
Steve Granick,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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Buy So, even with a 53-11 record and Oklahoma City applying regular-season beatings to the rest of the NBA every night, there is still an air of mystery around the Thunder’s championship-level viability.—
Tony Jones,
The Athletic,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Missouri banned almost all abortions in 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe.—
Summer Ballentine,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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For the Trump administration seeking to overturn the long-running right, as well as those fighting that plan, numbers would be useful.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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All of these capabilities lead to savings in time and manpower, lower costs and diminished risk of project overrun, as well as mitigating environmental degradation and fostering greener operations throughout the supply chain.—
Azra Nurkic,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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But Sunseeker had only a few bartenders and servers working, who were clearly overrun, even with only half the seats around the bar filled.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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As if the Israeli people’s losses from October 7th are not grievous enough, their fears for the hostages not haunting enough, and the miseries of the Gazans not shaming enough, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is bringing his country back to war.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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The then-vice president’s loss has propelled Beshear to at least a mid-level position in 2028 chatter.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
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Icarus This arc inverts the Man in a Hole storyline.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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But this one inverts that timeframe, opening midway through the evening that closed Episode 4 and—like the Full Moon Party on the island of Koh Phangan that is its partial backdrop—raging till the brink of dawn.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Overthrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overthrow. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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