throne
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Hannah Seo investigates why the iconic Concord grape lost its throne.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
After Duncan is dead, Macbeth worries that his friend Banquo’s line will end up on the throne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
My eyes fell to a circle in the floor right in front of the throne.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
It depicts a medieval game of thrones as William the Conqueror fought King Harold to rule England.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
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
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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
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Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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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
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
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
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
Don Enrique, returning, told me of it in his room at night, of the Christian service in the mosque and the throning in the Alhambra.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
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