enthrone
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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
One such arrangement might be to enthrone Khalid, but give the real control to a younger, more dynamic man.
From Time Magazine Archive
By virtue of this mandate, I ... do induct, install and enthrone you, Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey . . . into the archbishopric and the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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
The Fire-god enthrones with himself the friend that he loves.
From Simon Magus by George Robert Stow Mead
The other main type of university enthrones 'research' as its summum bonum.
From The History of University Education in Maryland by Bernard Christian Steiner
The admission that any bodily condition is beyond the control of Mind disarms man, prevents him from 394:12 helping himself, and enthrones matter through error.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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
Queen Consort Camilla will then be anointed, crowned and enthroned in a shorter ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
Barbarossa was enthroned in Ida's best armchair like a king forced to watch a bunch of mediocre actors perform.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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
Consecration involves the "glorifying" of Christ, the "enthroning" Him, the crowning of Jesus "Lord of all" in our own heart and life.
From The Spirit-Filled Life by John MacNeil
Of course, too, she has known many sorrows—who has not at seventy?—but she has consistently concealed pain and suffering instead of enthroning them.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
