dethrone
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It also turned Crow-Armstrong into an unlikely favorite to finally dethrone Shohei Ohtani as National League MVP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The 41-year-old star will join Jaylen Brown, Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey on a Philadelphia team that will aim to dethrone the New York Knicks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
But, four weeks before their Wimbledon showdown, Nadal had destroyed Federer 6-1 6-3 6-0 in the Roland Garros final to give him the confidence he could dethrone his rival.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Now, he'll be trying to dethrone 73-year-old Collins in the election.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
Because of the championship voters’ pronounced bias toward eastern horses in general and War Admiral in particular, Seabiscuit almost certainly could not dethrone the Horse of the Year without beating him on the track.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
October 14: The Airbus A320 dethrones the Boeing 737 as the leader in terms of all-time aircraft deliveries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Qualcomm can compete — not as the company that dethrones Nvidia, but as a credible, differentiated option in a fast-growing market.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
It is not every day a huge underdog dethrones a living legend.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022
The 13-foot fish dethrones the former record-holder, a 646-pound catfish found in northern Thailand in 2005.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
Let us add, And their testimony dethrones him.
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
Thorslund, 32, dethroned Cherneka Johnson in August to claim the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF titles.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Nvidia dethroned Microsoft as the most valuable publicly traded company last June, and its streak as the undisputed heavyweight of the AI era lasted for 265 trading days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Once Protestantism was dethroned, historians excavated almost every part of the nation’s spiritual landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
“We’re looking at an almost 150-year-old record potentially being dethroned here,” said Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2026
The story went like this: Her father had been dethroned by a mean giant.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Chinese automakers are moving headlong onto German carmakers’ home turf after dethroning them in China, previously their strongest overseas market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Miss Finland Organisation said dethroning Ms Dzafce was a "difficult but necessary" move.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
China has reclaimed its title as Germany's top trading partner, dethroning the United States after President Donald Trump launched his tariff onslaught, official data showed Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
As it continues to grow in popularity across the United States, perhaps dethroning the matcha trend, do as I do and when you see pandan on offer — try it.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
The Earl of Warwick was soon afterwards, with his fleet, instrumental in dethroning Henry, and placing Edward of Lancaster on the throne, under the title of Edward the Fourth.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
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