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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

Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer.

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

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 soul of all the great medieval period encircles this silver coffin, wrapping it up into a noble unity, and enthrones on the very summit of death.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

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 James De Mille

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

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

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

It is the old story of two conflicting civilizations, one representing bigness, the other greatness; one standing for materialism, the other for idealism; one enthroning the body, the other the spirit.

From Short Stories Old and New by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith