overturner

(ˌəʊvəˈtɜːnə)

a person who overturns

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innovator, that overturner of old systems and ideas, that enemy of sung monopolies," would serve this end.

Race, gender, class, and colonial nationalism: railway development in Newfoundland, 1881-1898

As part of his newly acknowledged status as a signifier, Dunbar could now also be seen as a trickster According to Gavin Jones's study, Dunbar was "a wily manipulator of the conventions, a subtle overturner of racist stereotypes, a sensitive renderer of the multiple facets of Black consciousness at the turn of the twentieth century" (184).

Paul Laurence Dunbar: a credit to his race?

By general acclamation Cusi was crowned the ninth Sapa Inca at the age of about twenty and received the name Pachacuti, "World Overturner" (or World Reformer), from the people he had rallied to save.

The Life of Pachacuti Inca Yupangui

In Altneuland, we are presented with the figure of the Jew as the harbinger of a cozy, liberal secularism, as the colonizer for progress, as the defuser of magic and the overturner of moribund traditions, and as the exponent of the sphere of circulation in the modern world capitalist system.

Utopia and geopolitics in Theodor Herzl's Altneuland

Equipment offered by Sealed Air includes case and tray erectors, case sealers, case packers, palletisers, case overturners and pallet stretchwrappers.

Sealed air targets UK beverage and foods markets with Mondo range

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