dethrone

The hero of this round-of-32 shootout was Paraguay’s 26-year-old goalkeeper Orlando Gill, who stopped two German efforts to give the No. 34-ranked country in the world a chance to dethrone the four-time champions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

But, by the numbers, the Spurs have already distinguished themselves as the likeliest team to dethrone the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The 17-year-old recovered from a horror crash to dethrone the United States' two-time defending champion Chloe Kim in the halfpipe on Thursday in Italy.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

With the launch of Atlas, OpenAI isn’t just looking to dethrone Google Chrome as the default browser: It also wants ChatGPT to be the default operating system for the AI age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

Now supremely confident of his chances of winning both the eighth and the ninth games, which would give him the match, Bobby rather formally declared that he would dethrone Spassky.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Qualcomm can compete — not as the company that dethrones Nvidia, but as a credible, differentiated option in a fast-growing market.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

It is not every day a huge underdog dethrones a living legend.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022

The 13-foot fish dethrones the former record-holder, a 646-pound catfish found in northern Thailand in 2005.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022

Why he might not be a jerk: Look, a coach getting really excited when his athlete wins gold and dethrones the world-record holder is not by itself definitive evidence of jerkdom.

From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2021

There is another vice, still more terrible, more blighting in its effects, a vice which defiles, diseases, and destroys the body, enervates, degrades, and finally dethrones the mind, debases and ruins the soul.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

They have not been out of the top three of the Fifa world ranking since March 2022, and spent two years in the number one spot before being dethroned by France last year.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Tesla was dethroned early this year by Chinese automaker BYD as the largest EV seller in the world, but for many Californians, Musk’s signature vehicles are still an obvious choice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Hartford dethroned last year’s hottest market, Buffalo, N.Y., ranked by Zillow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Last season they were dethroned as Premier League champions by Liverpool and they trail leaders Arsenal by six points in the current campaign.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

The story went like this: Her father had been dethroned by a mean giant.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

And now you know you’re not mounting a monumental upset and dethroning the defending NBA champions.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

China has reclaimed its title as Germany's top trading partner, dethroning the United States after President Donald Trump launched his tariff onslaught, official data showed Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

As it continues to grow in popularity across the United States, perhaps dethroning the matcha trend, do as I do and when you see pandan on offer — try it.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025

The rise of the powerful technology first elevated Microsoft to the biggest market capitalization in January, dethroning Apple, before pushing Nvidia to take the crown.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

In 808 Archbishop Eanbald joined the Mercian king, Cenwulf, in dethroning Eardulf of Northumbria.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William