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Soon thereafter Mr. de la Bédoyère comments on “the irritatingly similar throne names used by Egyptian kings,” a point on which all readers of ancient Egyptian history will readily concur.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

He is the 267th occupant of the throne of St Peter – and is the first American.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Walls will begin to whisper throughout. You get to take Paul’s throne and see the desert come alive around you. Guests may even find out if they have what it takes to ride a sandworm.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

As long as Frederick remained on the throne, Tycho was able to enjoy an unprecedented amount of freedom to run his observatory just as he liked.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Warner Bros.’ sale has become the industry’s game of thrones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The thrones were empty except for two at the end: the head throne on the right, and the one to its immediate left.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

Above their heads the trees met in a brown-and-purple tracery of boughs, and on their right, through the branches, they saw a pale full moon, throning it in a silver sky.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

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

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

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