dethrone
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The 41-year-old star will join Jaylen Brown, Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey on a Philadelphia team that will aim to dethrone the New York Knicks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
Because of the championship voters’ pronounced bias toward eastern horses in general and War Admiral in particular, Seabiscuit almost certainly could not dethrone the Horse of the Year without beating him on the track.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
It is not every day a huge underdog dethrones a living legend.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022
Bulldogs win it all: With a dominant late burst, Georgia dethrones Alabama for its first national title since 1980.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2022
Pepin rebels, dethrones the Merovingian race, and shuts his king in a cloister; but if he succeeds not, he mounts the scaffold.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Nvidia dethroned Microsoft as the most valuable publicly traded company last June, and its streak as the undisputed heavyweight of the AI era lasted for 265 trading days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
The result lifts Saints up to second while Wigan could be dethroned from top spot if Leeds beat Bradford in their derby later on Friday.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
“We’re looking at an almost 150-year-old record potentially being dethroned here,” said Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2026
The story went like this: Her father had been dethroned by a mean giant.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Chinese automakers are moving headlong onto German carmakers’ home turf after dethroning them in China, previously their strongest overseas market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
Him pitching like this would have erased whatever chance the Padres had of dethroning the Dodgers in the National League West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 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
An act was passed, during this time, in obedience to the demands of the mob, dethroning the king.
From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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