upending
- present participle of upend.
Example Sentences
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Forces — some visible, some harder to see — are upending literature and education itself.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
Do that enough, and climate change could be curtailed without upending the world as we know it.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026
His grandfather had fled their village in 1948 to avoid being conscripted in the civil war that was upending millions of lives.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
The announcement, made during the Computex conference in Taipei, underscores how so-called AI agents are upending nearly every part of the tech industry only a few months after they became widespread.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Or when that social worker had escorted him to his empty apartment to pack up a small bag of things, upending his life as yours had been upended, as mine had too.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
