dethroned; dethroning; dethrones
: to remove from a throne or place of power or prominence
dethrone a king
trying to dethrone the champion
dethroner
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the nation's last monarch was dethroned in a popular uprising many years ago
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Yet the allegations alone could dethrone one of the world’s most popular contemporary artists, whose work, more explicitly than any other, has inserted Black figures into the white art-historical canon.
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Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
One pretty decent horror movie has been dethroned by a truly terrible one in Netflix’s top 10 list today.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Amanda Nunes dethroned Cyborg in December 2018, becoming a two-division champion, and the UFC retired the title when Nunes walked away from the sport in June 2023.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Many people are traumatized or in mourning; others talk manically about dethroning Hezbollah, and perhaps with it, Lebanon’s centuries-old system of sectarian power-sharing.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Dethrone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dethrone. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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