unhorse
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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.
From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2019
The current scandal seems as unlikely to unhorse Chairman Daniel Haughton, who has headed Lockheed since 1967, as any of the company's former crises.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Even so, Johnson may prove no easier to unhorse in 1968 than Harry Truman was 20 years earlier when threatened by an overconfident G.O.P.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Jousting, or tilting, was a frequent amusement; in this the knights fought with blunt lances, and each tried to break his opponent's lance or to unhorse him.
From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various