PITCHPOLING Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

pitchpoling

verb

present participle of pitchpole

as in tumping (over)

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That balance is now inverting, and the shift is a signal of a maturing industry.

— Mike Cahill, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Windsor-Smith’s storytelling shifted the typical narrative responsibility of text onto the imagery, inverting the usual comic book reading experience.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

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Statue toppling riots… and the very real possibility of death.

— Rund Abdelfatah, NPR, 2 July 2026
Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton missed the entire 2025-26 campaign to recover from a torn Achilles, but the Pacers were one game away from toppling the Oklahoma City Thunder and winning the 2024-25 championship before Haliburton got hurt.

— Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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Beginning in the mid-1990s, Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear agency, helped build the facility, subsequently administering it for years before turning over control to the Iranian regime.

— Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
The Department of Justice sued Maryland and several other states for not turning over private voter rolls, which include personal information for millions of Maryland voters.

— JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 22 June 2026

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Moreover, Iran alienated several of its neighbors in the Gulf by launching retaliatory attacks against them and upending regional trade through the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 3 July 2026
Investors’ fears of Anthropic’s Mythos model, which was launched in April, upending all cybersecurity software businesses, have since subsided.

— Kirk Ogunrinde, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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The Frontex patrol boat sank off the tiny Greek island of Kastellorizo after capsizing, the coast guard said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
Operators of another boat happened to be on the phone with the Coast Guard checking conditions in the inlet and reported the vessel, the Moonstruck, capsizing, according to The Coastland Times.

— Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025

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More than 160 years earlier, Galileo's telescopic observations had revealed mountains, valleys, and craters on the lunar surface, overturning the ancient notion that heavenly bodies were perfect spheres.

— Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 2 July 2026
The ruling is the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions that have loosened campaign finance restrictions, overturning a 2001 precedent that upheld the spending limits.

— Michel Martin, NPR, 1 July 2026

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pitchpoling

pitch (upon)

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