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be overturn
verb
To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
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From the time of nineteenth-century New York's great diarist, Philip Hone, who first declared New York's favorite maxim to be "overturn, overturn, overturn!" to today's Luc Sante and his biting critique that in New York the "past has no truck," New York has lived up to its cliche.
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It must be overturned.
It should be overturned".
Anyway, conventional wisdom can be overturned.
These exemptions must be overturned.
Could Citizens United be overturned?
Will the ban be overturned?
Will their world be overturned?
The whole system cannot be overturned.
"We're confident it will be overturned".
What seems most certain can be overturned.
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