enthrone

The fund helped steady the finances of war-ravaged Europe, enthrone the dollar as the international currency and shore up U.S. allies from Britain to Korea.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2017

And the knights launched a revolt to enthrone the son of one of them, 20-year-old Stanislas Parvulesco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015

Gladly Japan poured out the equivalent of a million dollars a day for 16 days to enthrone "The Son of Heaven."

From Time Magazine Archive

To depose the rule of force, and to enthrone the rule of law in the disposition of international differences is imperative .

From Time Magazine Archive

I don’t sit, but take my place, kneeling, near the chair with the footstool where Serena Joy will shortly enthrone herself, leaning on her cane while she lowers herself down.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Von Stuck delights in contrasts: On the “Orpheus wall,” he enthrones the mythical lyre-player above tamed animals in an architectural fresco based on Pompeian murals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Karole Armitage's choreography also keeps the joint jumping and Scott Pask's design ironically enthrones the excellent band in a vast military truck.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2010

He arrays himself as it were in his victory, enthrones himself in his foolishness, triumphs in his senseless twaddling.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

She was not that ideal of grace and gentleness which "Untutored youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties," enthrones within the temple of his heart, but was, notwithstanding, a remarkable woman.

From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

And, most significant of all, these are the world-wide examples that the college man enthrones in the empire of his thoughts.

From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Stephen Francis Weston

The marathon ended Sunday with Dudamel literally enthroned by, and serenaded by, Chris Martin of the band Coldplay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

A former nurse made history Wednesday when she was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the centuries-old mother church of the world's 85 million-strong Anglican community.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

While such preparatory drawings often focused on the figures alone, Filippino devotes equal attention to the architectural setting, in this case an open loggia on which the saint is enthroned and surrounded by angels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

Oft doth reason, enthroned in the pillowed seraglio of the brain, hang back; whereas the flesh, which must walk abroad in the streets, finds its own temerity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

As the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner once said, “Our country, be she right or wrong: a sentiment dethroning God and enthroning the devil.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2017

Besides his plays and satirical romances he wrote the first modern history of philosophy, enthroning Reason after severe skirmishes with the Church and two emperors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning his son.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the old story of two conflicting civilizations, one representing bigness, the other greatness; one standing for materialism, the other for idealism; one enthroning the body, the other the spirit.

From Short Stories Old and New by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith

Enthrone′ment, Enthronisā′tion, the act of enthroning or of being enthroned.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various