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throne

[throhn] / θroʊn /


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Harald, who was seen as a popular, modernising figure, was on the Norwegian throne for 35 years.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

The 13-year-old, who is second in line for the British throne, was dropped off at the all-boys boarding school by his parents, the Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

The late King Harald, a popular, modernising figure who had been on the Norwegian throne for 35 years, died last month at the age of 89.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Harry reportedly remains estranged from Prince William, his brother and heir to the throne, and William's wife Catherine.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

Winds swirled around his throne and took the form of horses.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.

From Barron's Mar. 25, 2026

On Friday Netflix aced out Paramount Skydance and Comcast to win this game of media thrones.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

Foo Fighters fired its new drummer Josh Freese this year, just two years into his tenure behind one of the most coveted thrones in rock following the death of Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2025

Farther up, another channel, ABP, turned for the second straight night to a program that made its intentions abundantly clear: “Who Will Become Prime Minister?” read the poster for the show, decorated with red thrones.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2024

Four smaller gold thrones lined up in a row on a lower level.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

A hoarder of women, art, antiquities — and most of all, money — Getty also might have taken issue with Portia’s claim that mercy “becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.”

From New York Times Dec. 24, 2017

So Blatter is seeking to be throned for another four years as Fifa big cheese at the elections to be held in June.

From The Guardian Mar. 22, 2011

Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

On every side, where'er he came, He heard glad words, their theme the same, As in their joy the gathered folk Of Ráma and the throning spoke.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

In our passage through life we meet scarcely any who do not persist, with a kind of unreasoning obstinacy, in throning the material within them, and there maintaining it supreme.

From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro

According to the ethics of the day, he was a model citizen, whereas Antony throning as Osiris with a female Mithridates for consort, was as oblivious of Roman dignity as of conjugal faith.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

Whate'er the rites of throning need Placed on a car the way shall lead: The sacred vessels I will take To the wild wood for Ráma's sake.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

How low when angels fall their black descent, Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain Of music, that nigh throning wisdom went, And one false note cast wailful to the insane.

From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith




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