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

A kickboxing world champion attempts to dethrone boxing's unified heavyweight king at the foot of the Pyramids of Giza - it sounds like the plot of Hollywood's latest blockbuster movie.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Dubois survived two early knockdowns to dethrone fellow Briton Wardley with an 11th-round stoppage in Manchester on Saturday.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

The first of his major objectives for the season is May's Giro d'Italia, after which he will try to dethrone Pogacar at the Tour, seeking to add to his 2022 and 2023 successes.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

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

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

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

Enlightened reason dethrones devils; but Laotse created devils innumerable, and the chief concern of the Taouist sect has always been to manipulate these emissaries of evil.

From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble

Thorslund, 32, dethroned Cherneka Johnson in August to claim the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF titles.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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

BYD recently dethroned Tesla as the world’s biggest EV seller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

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

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

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

Among the teams capable of dethroning Norco is Orange Lutheran, No. 2 behind the Cougars in Cal-Hi Sports’ preseason Southland top 20 rankings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

Rein Me In climbed four places to reach number one, dethroning Taylor Swift's latest single Opalite, which reached the top last week after the release of its music video.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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

The will is the man, and when the will bows, dethroning self and enthroning God, submitting to His appointments, and delighting to execute His commandments, then the sacrifice is begun.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren