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Pitt’s legal team previously attempted to depose Stoli executive Alexey Oliynik in 2025, claiming that he had relevant information pertaining to the Jolie deal.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Sadie Weldon, a private citizen, sought to depose the Lilith Fund’s deputy director using a special Texas mechanism called a 202 petition that allows people to investigate a potential claim before filing suit.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2026

The green card holder was deployed to Panama in 1989 as the U.S. tried to depose the nation’s de facto leader, Gen. Manuel Noriega.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

Bush sent troops in 1989 to depose and arrest the president of Panama, Manuel Noriega.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Sabata was opposed to the Bantu Authorities and would not capitulate, but my visitors were afraid that Matanzima would depose him, which is eventually what happened.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

One night, after shooting wrapped for the day, Ruffalo went home to prepare for a big scene in which Bilott deposes DuPont’s CEO.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2019

As Hagopian writes, “ESSA deposes one of the cruelest aspects of the test-and-punish policy under NCLB: the so-called ‘Adequate Yearly Progress’ annual test score improvement requirement that labeled nearly every American school failing.”

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2016

About that show, he deposes, “People said it increased their appreciation for the radical potentials in Elizabethan drama.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2014

Three months of missed targets, and the catfish deposes the leaders he or she has been shadowing.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2013

We thus indicate a shortcoming in Saurin which deposes this great preacher, one is compelled to admit, despite his remarkable merits, from the first into the second rank of orators.

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

The tablet records a royal grant and indicates that Tiglath-pileser probably ruled from roughly 763-762 BCE before eventually being deposed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Earlier this year, civil rights attorneys deposed two ICE deportation officers and learned the agency had shifted from conducting targeted enforcement operations to making collateral arrests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

He played a key role in persuading Trump during his first term to back off plans to remove U.S. troops from Syria, ruled at the time by Bashar al-Assad, who was later deposed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

India's efforts to rebuild ties with Bangladesh's new government are complicated by the continued presence in Delhi of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, whose extradition Dhaka has sought.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

“A more conservative association was wanted. And now if we divide and Mrs. Stanton shall be deposed from the presidency you virtually degrade her.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The lightning operation combined naval, air and ground forces, deposing the strongman who had led Venezuela since 2013.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

An ally that will never fail, no matter who out there is deposing you.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025

Back in the 9th District, once Ross stepped aside and let her critics take the microphone to make the case for deposing her, they lost steam.

From Slate ● May 6, 2024

They've tasted the power that comes from deposing a leader and they want more.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024

In deposing or relegating to a lower rank a crowd of totems and fetishes and ancestral ghosts, he inherited the legends of their exploits.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang