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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

Then arises the dispute, "Had Opimius lawfully the power, for the sake of the safety of the republic, to put to death a citizen who was overturning the republic, without his being condemned?"

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius