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capsizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of capsize

as in overturns

to turn on one's side or upside down a huge wave out of nowhere caused our little sailboat to capsize

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Recent Examples of capsizes When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024 Boat capsizes during sudden storm on Geneva Lake Officials said all four children aboard were wearing life jackets at the time of the incident. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 July 2026 The group gets stranded at sea off the coast of Florida when their boat capsizes, leading Coast Guard Captain Timothy Close (Duhamel) to oversee the efforts to bring them home as a storm looms. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025

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This decision overturns a 2001 Supreme Court case that declared the limits on party spending to be constitutional.

— Nina Totenberg, NPR, 30 June 2026
Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews’ ruling overturns a June 15 decision by Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher to disqualify the challenger and keep him off the primary ballot.

— Becky Bohrer, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026

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Corruption deepened, the economy entered one of the worst collapses in modern history, and a humanitarian crisis pushed close to a third of the population out of the country.

— Tibisay Zea, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026
By contrast, Roberts’s opinion in Slaughter collapses this distinction.

— George Thomas, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026

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Paraguay upsets Germany in sudden-death penalty kicks Gustavo Gómez of Paraguay celebrates after José Canale converts the winning penalty in a penalty shootout against Germany on Monday.

— Josh Feldman, NBC news, 30 June 2026
With a victory on Thursday, Sweden would win Group F if Tunisia upsets the Netherlands; otherwise Sweden would finish in second place.

— Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 25 June 2026

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Men leaders can pay attention to and be mindful of who in the workplace may be playing more of an emotional support role that falls outside their job description.

— Holly Corbett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Royal Week falls ahead of Prince Harry's upcoming trip to the United Kingdom.

— Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026

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