is overturning
- present progressive of overturn (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
The reward is overturning calls that are clearly wrong.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2021
But a growing body of research is overturning assumptions about what early education can look like.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2019
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
