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
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
I believe as the years go on it will be said of this week in Washington: 'There, in that pact, humanity took its great step to enthrone the great freedoms of the world.'
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
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
It's not so essential, but it crowns and enthrones its possessor and is life's rarest gift: pure charm.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
The green-eyed monster, unbidden, enters the heart and enthrones himself as ruler of the happiness of the individual over whom it assumes sway.
From The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad by F. A. (Freeland A.) Carter
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
Channel 4 News said Bishop John, who was enthroned Bishop of Liverpool in 2023, was interviewed voluntarily under caution by police in March last year.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
The King and Queen sat enthroned in the great chairs on the dais.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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
Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning his son.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The will is the man, and when the will bows, dethroning self and enthroning God, submitting to His appointments, and delighting to execute His commandments, then the sacrifice is begun.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
In literature, both prose and verse, the rationalistic and practical spirit showed itself in the enthroning above everything else of the principles of utility and common sense in substance and straightforward directness in style.
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
