dethrone
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It also turned Crow-Armstrong into an unlikely favorite to finally dethrone Shohei Ohtani as National League MVP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The new-look quartet will aim to dethrone the New York Knicks and chase James’s fifth championship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Now, he'll be trying to dethrone 73-year-old Collins in the election.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
Another clip shows Robert Pattinson sporting a platinum blond buzzcut and staring menacingly in his role as Scytale, who is a new addition to the films and is described as wanting to dethrone Atreides.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
We were better equipped than many founders of dynasties had been when they walked north to dethrone an emperor; they had been peasants like us.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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October 14: The Airbus A320 dethrones the Boeing 737 as the leader in terms of all-time aircraft deliveries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
“This is precisely why so many economists resist it: because it dethrones their outdated tools and analyses,” she continued.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 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
Certainly the mind at once dethrones him from his supremacy upon his own tomb, and substitutes an Epaminondas, a Cromwell, a Washington,—what it wills.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
Thorslund, 32, dethroned Cherneka Johnson in August to claim the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF titles.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
As the Spurs dethroned the defending champions on their home floor, the 22-year-old Wembanyama didn’t just match the early-career signposts of the greatest players in NBA history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Once Protestantism was dethroned, historians excavated almost every part of the nation’s spiritual landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 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
I spent the rest of the day in shock, reeling at the news that I’d been dethroned.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Shelton, meanwhile, is coming off the biggest victory of his career, a madcap, wee-hours dethroning of defending champ Alcaraz which also went to a fifth-set tiebreak and ran all the way until 3:33 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
He isn't thinking about dethroning three-time world champion Karsten Warholm, instead prioritising enjoyment and learning.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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 General Election of 1880, by dethroning Lord Beaconsfield and putting Gladstone in power, had fulfilled the strictly political objects which during the preceding three years my friends and I had been trying to attain.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
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