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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

But, by the numbers, the Spurs have already distinguished themselves as the likeliest team to dethrone the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The 17-year-old recovered from a horror crash to dethrone the United States' two-time defending champion Chloe Kim in the halfpipe on Thursday in Italy.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

We were better equipped than many founders of dynasties had been when they walked north to dethrone an emperor; they had been peasants like us.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

In such an atmosphere the boisterous passion breaks through the cordon of harmony and thrusts itself forward as the subject, which with its bulk and pressure dethrones the unity of creation.

From Creative Unity by Rabindranath Tagore

Thorslund, 32, dethroned Cherneka Johnson in August to claim the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF titles.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Texas has dethroned California as the state with the most Fortune 500 companies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

As the Spurs dethroned the defending champions on their home floor, the 22-year-old Wembanyama didn’t just match the early-career signposts of the greatest players in NBA history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

BYD recently dethroned Tesla as the world’s biggest EV seller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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

Him pitching like this would have erased whatever chance the Padres had of dethroning the Dodgers in the National League West.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025

It was easy for Germans and Englishmen to reason calmly about dethroning the papal hierarchy.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner