upend in English

verb
1
set or turn (something) on its end or upside down.
Kitty upended her purse, dumping out all her money
synonyms:overturninvertturn overturn upside downcapsizefliptipkeel overturn turtletriptake the legs out from under

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1. Crypto art could soon upend the music industry

2. If successful, we will upend our main competitors.

3. We'll have to upend the sofa to get it through the door.

4. For 40 years, Karten and colleagues have worked to upend this thinking.

5. And that, he and others say, could upend our notions of culpability, crime and punishment.

6. To what extent it is capable of leveraging these powers to upend Western hegemony of technology is a truly fascinating question.

7. The Cousins had McManus's signature ability to upend expectation but what it lacked was the fully-fleshed-out characterizations that made OOUIL so great

8. Even without the startling Chinese scores, the latest findings upend some traditional notions about education and should give pause for thought to policy makers everywhere.

9. Services like Google Wallet likely won't upend the business models of commercial banks, but could alter the way customers interact with them.

10. Helping lead the effort to upend thousands of years of Chinese tradition is Xu Moxiao, a man determined to lengthen the customary autumn fighting season.

11. Competition between the maid of honor and a Bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

12. The Conning Commentary for January 2021 provides an outlook for the insurance industry in the year ahead.A divided government seems to be the most likely result (although Georgia’s two Senate elections in January could upend this balance) and that may be generally supportive of markets and the industry, according to Conning’s analysis.

13. So in addition to promoting those proactive solutions, the other thing we need to do is upend the hate in our institutions and our policies that perpetuate dehumanization and difference and otherizing and hate, like systems of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace, or our deeply racially imbalanced and deeply racially biased criminal "justice" system.