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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
upend .
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Examples
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It may feel like your calling upends your ego's plans for your life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tara Sophia Mohr 2011
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It may feel like your calling upends your ego's plans for your life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tara Sophia Mohr 2011
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Economically, it upends some pretty basic, common sense fiscal logic that could, potentially, worsen an unemployment situation that can't get any worse unless it's an official depression no one wants to announce.
Charles D. Ellison: Where Do People Think Gov't Workers Come From? Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Nathan Myhrvold's 2,400-page 'Modernist Cuisine' upends everything you thought you knew about cooking.
The Game-Changing Cookbook Katy McLaughlin 2011
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Economically, it upends some pretty basic, common sense fiscal logic that could, potentially, worsen an unemployment situation that can't get any worse unless it's an official depression no one wants to announce.
Charles D. Ellison: Where Do People Think Gov't Workers Come From? Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Economically, it upends some pretty basic, common sense fiscal logic that could, potentially, worsen an unemployment situation that can't get any worse unless it's an official depression no one wants to announce.
Charles D. Ellison: Where Do People Think Gov't Workers Come From? Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Carrie in "Carrie" (Sissy Spacek): This girl geek doesn't just turn the tables — she upends the entire friggin 'prom.
‘Juno’ Writer Diablo Cody Picks Her Top 10 Movie Badasses » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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Mr. Iggulden, for all his martial virtues, too rarely upends our expectations.
Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011
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The likable cast also features Michelle Dockery as eldest daughter Mary and Dan Stevens as a solicitor who upends the status quo. — Jeff Gemmill
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The finding upends a widely-held scientific belief that modern humans originated in east Africa.
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