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
Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly, "he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he could your brother."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
She represents Wisdom, which, by its life and increase, at last dethrones the God of Vengeance and enthrones the God of Love.
From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James
Since it must believe in some- thing besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
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 Michelet, Jules
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
Before he was enthroned, the king married Mayisela in 2021 in a civil marriage.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
On the dais on the right side of the ballroom the King and Queen were enthroned, and at the King’s right hand was the King’s Huntress.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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
The imagination of man has not lost its power or forgotten its function since it performed the prodigious task of enthroning its hope by the side of the godhead.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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 Addams, Jane
