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is overturning

  • present progressive
    of overturn (3rd person singular).
    overturn
    verb (used with object)
    to cause (something) to turn onto its side, face, or back; upset.

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Playwrights and directors have a duty to guide audiences through the brave new technological world that is overturning many of the bedrock assumptions of humanism since the Renaissance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, said the current court is overturning precedent and striking down legislation at a significantly slower rate than its post-war predecessors.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

But a growing body of research is overturning assumptions about what early education can look like.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2019

“I’m worried about what you are saying is overturning labor law that goes back to, for FDR at least, the entire heart of the New Deal,” Breyer said.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2017

An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable in the spotlight, Bronner is overturning the image of the pension manager as passive investor--and not without controversy.

From Time Magazine Archive