overturn
verb (used with object)
was overturning
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past progressiveof overturn.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And yet, in the same period, the CCF was overturning roughly half of all Russian requests that it received complaints about.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
But the oversight board said on Thursday that it was overturning the decision, calling it “incorrect.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Yet he couldn’t help being inspired by the modernist revolution that was overturning the hidebound rules of the contemporary stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
Breyer notes the court was overturning a previous court decision that said “Western civilization” had always condemned homosexuality.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2015
Now that war was overturning his existence with its agitations, the same agonies were reappearing.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
