dethrone
Example Sentences
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After a disastrous rookie season, Williams—the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2024—exhibited astonishing progress over the course of the year to dethrone the Detroit Lions in the NFC North.
Medline’s IPO dethroned Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology as this year’s top debut.
The Miss Finland Organisation said dethroning Ms Dzafce was a "difficult but necessary" move.
From BBC
The American coffee company has lost market share in China to cheaper, local rivals such as Luckin Coffee, which dethroned Starbucks as the country’s biggest coffee chain by sales and stores in 2023.
The Aztec emperor Montezuma, one could say, was dethroned not so much by Cortés as by Old World germs and New World enemies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
