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enthrone

[en-throhn] / ɛnˈθroʊn /




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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

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

A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects.

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

The other main type of university enthrones 'research' as its summum bonum.

From The History of University Education in Maryland by Bernard Christian Steiner

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

You bid me turn my face on high Where the blue heaven the sun enthrones, And serve a viewless deity, Nor make my bow to stocks and stones.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan

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

When he was two years old, a search party of Buddhist officials recognised him as the reincarnation of the 13 previous Dalai Lamas and he was enthroned before he turned four.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Yet Laurence Stanninghame, gazing upon him, recognized a natural dignity—nay, a majesty enthroning this nearly naked savage such as he had never seen quite equalled in the aspect or deportment of any other living man.

From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford

Posterity has rewarded him by enthroning him on the highest peaks of musical fame.

From The Great German Composers by George T. (George Titus) Ferris


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