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
By virtue of this mandate, I ... do induct, install and enthrone you, Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey . . . into the archbishopric and the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 was not that ideal of grace and gentleness which "Untutored youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties," enthrones within the temple of his heart, but was, notwithstanding, a remarkable woman.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens
The admission that any bodily condition is beyond the control of Mind disarms man, prevents him from 394:12 helping himself, and enthrones matter through error.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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 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
Bishop Mason was formerly the acting Bishop of Liverpool before Bishop Perumbalath was enthroned in 2023.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
This presentation had lasted for more than three hours, but it had enthroned a new sense of reality in the hearts of those present, a sense of man on earth.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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
Above the enthroning threat The mouth's mould testifies of voice and kiss, The shadowed eyes remember and foresee.
From Master of the Vineyard by Myrtle Reed
No family autonomy is henceforth to be secured by fiat of law enthroning one "head" as the legal despot or economic ruler.
From The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
