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throne

[throhn] / θroʊn /


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Musk’s post shows Anakin, as played by actor Hayden Christensen, sitting on a throne surrounded by his children, Luke and Leia, and his wife, Padme.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Harry, the second son of King Charles III and estranged brother of heir to the throne Prince William, married the American Meghan, a former actress, at Windsor Castle in May 2018.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Hannah Seo investigates why the iconic Concord grape lost its throne.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

Pope Leo XIV, who ascended to the throne of St. Peter last year, has already made six overseas trips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“Your grandmother was the Keeper of the Forest,” said the fairy queen, who wore a crown of clover and sat upon a throne of holly leaves.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

While Price and his colleagues go to take advantage of the open bar, I chat with New York State Young Democrats chief of staff Avi Presberg, 28, upon the restaurant’s lion-headed thrones.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Across 58 scenes the British Museum counts 737 animals, 627 figures, 416 plants, 115 swords, 37 ships, 33 buildings, 23 trees, 11 thrones, four sea crossings, two feasts, and the first depiction of Halley’s Comet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Two thrones also used for props are up for sale.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

In those paintings, angels cluster around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

The spectacle of John L. Lewis on Organized Labor's pinnacle, throned on Coal and crowned with Steel, is not fantastic.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

Thus toward that throning bosom Where all earth is warmed,—each spot Nourished with autumnal blessings - Icy chill was Daphne caught.

From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith

How heartily she rained them on the Tuileries and the majesty of the imperial court, throning on high above an abject and trembling people.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola

Frederic, though great in royal throning, Well may amaze the earth, and heaven, When clothed by thunder and the levin Swerves he before the hero's fanfare.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Now little Ronald Campbell was the same who had picked up Earl Kenric's gauntlet on the day of his throning on the Great Plain.

From The Thirsty Sword by Robert Leighton

The king and queen, my lady dear, Touching the throning, for my sake Some salutary counsel take.

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


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