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Recent Examples of throne
Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
The movie ends with Kraven reenacting the iconic comic book cover, wearing a lion fur vest and lounging on a wooden throne with his countless abs on full display.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
And like Clemson last year, LSU de-throned the defending champion in the title game (winning 42-25), though this one was on a 29-game winning streak.
—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 14 Jan. 2020
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Noun
The loss, however, laid bare the areas that require urgent improvement if New York is serious about challenging the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers for a shot at the Eastern Conference throne.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
The movie ends with Kraven reenacting the iconic comic book cover, wearing a lion fur vest and lounging on a wooden throne with his countless abs on full display.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
Verb
Kate Daly, relationship expert and cofounder of online divorce service amicable, shared the pros and cons of throning.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
And like Clemson last year, LSU de-throned the defending champion in the title game (winning 42-25), though this one was on a 29-game winning streak.
—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 14 Jan. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throne
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This not only improves the ride dynamics but also reduces the seat height by 1.1 inches (28 mm) when compared to the S2 Del Mar. Livewire On the charging front, the Alpinista requires 9.1 hours to charge from 0% to 100%, and 5.9 hours to charge from 20% to 80% on a Level 1 (110V) charger.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Jan. 2025
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Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos will have ringside seats for Trump's inauguration Bannon cited the broad coalition that led to Trump's return to the White House as a reason for the shift in tone.—
Caleigh Bartash,
ABC News,
19 Jan. 2025
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Similar to the other Love Island spin-offs, only one pair will be crowned the winners.—
Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
14 Jan. 2025
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Cole noted that Chyna held the WWE Intercontinental Championship after beating Jeff Jarrett, but this match would crown the first WWE Women’s Intercontinental champion.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Rather than being on a pedestal, authors are rewarded for their candidness and authenticity.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2025
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Glenfiddich created the category and elevated it, talking about 'single chateau' and 'single malt,' putting it on a pedestal.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Khan’s populist and polarizing bid to regain power has been dealt a huge, most likely fatal blow by the institution that once enthroned Khan.—
Aqil Shah,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2023
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The decision enthrones the high court—an unelected majority—as a group of technically incompetent, in some cases corrupt, politicos in robes with power over matters that hinge on vital facts about pollution, medicine, employment and much else.—
The Editors,
Scientific American,
10 July 2024
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This year’s list lacks some of the sizzle of last year’s, even if several of the guys at the top of it ended up elsewhere.—
Joseph Person,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Unfortunately, as tends to happen with private-detective work, my quotidian marital investigation has inadvertently led me to uncover a larger conspiracy that goes all the way to the top.—
Graham Techler,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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In some ways, saber teeth represent an evolutionary pinnacle, the optimal design for a canine tooth to puncture prey, says Rayfield.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2025
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For 2025, the VW Tiguan, which has been the company’s top selling model since it was redesigned in 2018 to align with the Atlas, serves as a pinnacle of all those ideas and then, takes them a step further with true luxury features and an even more elevated, refined style inside and out.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Scores of other active projects would be discussed in other meetings, on other days—including museum spaces in Bilbao, Madrid, and San Diego, and a proposal for a tower in Riyadh that, at a height of two kilometres, would be more than twice as tall as any building ever built.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Quite frankly, Moicano is far from being at Makhachev’s lofty height.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Still, Valéry’s eminence as a modernist is indisputable.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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But Mufasa doesn’t offer the iconic character a story worthy of his eminence.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Throne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throne. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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