dethrone
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The only question is which team can offer the strongest challenge to dethrone the Eagles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
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
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
Dubois survived two early knockdowns to dethrone fellow Briton Wardley with an 11th-round stoppage in Manchester on Saturday.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Now supremely confident of his chances of winning both the eighth and the ninth games, which would give him the match, Bobby rather formally declared that he would dethrone Spassky.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
The idea, well expressed many years ago by the theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, is that “radical monotheism dethrones all absolutes short of the principle of being itself.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
Why he might not be a jerk: Look, a coach getting really excited when his athlete wins gold and dethrones the world-record holder is not by itself definitive evidence of jerkdom.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2021
Take advantage of the present, but it will be wise to look out for something more permanent than the caprice of public favour, which dethrones its idols almost as quickly as it has crowned them.”
From The Intriguers by William Le Queux
Since June, when SoftBank briefly dethroned Toyota as Japan’s most valuable company, the company’s shares have fallen more than 55%, erasing over $160 billion in value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Her arrival briefly dethroned Joe Rogan at the top of the Spotify chart, and the show continues to hit the top 10.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The 30-year-old was dethroned on Monday following Sonay Kartal's run to the final in Wuhan but knew she could overturn the 55-point deficit by reaching the last four in Osaka.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Their time of three minutes 47.092 seconds was a new Commonwealth Games record and the Australians had been dethroned.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
I spent the rest of the day in shock, reeling at the news that I’d been dethroned.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Shelton, meanwhile, is coming off the biggest victory of his career, a madcap, wee-hours dethroning of defending champ Alcaraz which also went to a fifth-set tiebreak and ran all the way until 3:33 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
He controlled two-thirds of the empire; but, believing that the people were not yet ready for a change, he refrained from dethroning the emperor.
From The Sayings Of Confucius by Leonard Arthur Lyall
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