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
A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan.
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
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
She enters a community and breaks the iron of slavery, bestows equality on all, and enthrones in power public opinion.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
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
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
Before he was enthroned, the king married Mayisela in 2021 in a civil marriage.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
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
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
Of these two principles, one subordinates reason to tradition and tends to the almost complete abdication of thought in favour of absolute faith; the other results in enthroning imagination, spiritual hallucination and mystic ecstacy.
From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field
In the extremes of society—the affluent and the wretched—this tendency is found, alike in its speculative and practical form, in its denial of personal responsibility, its enthroning of indulgence in the place of discipline.
From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Samuel Osgood
