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He told the newspaper: "There has been, since I arrived at Cambridge, a very well orchestrated and co-ordinated campaign to unseat me from my position."

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Brazilian Joao Havelange was the last person to unseat a Fifa president in an election, ousting Sir Stanley Rous in 1974.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Microsoft has been a big backer of OpenAI but is struggling to remain on the forefront of the fast-moving technology, which threatens to unseat software makers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Gen. Marissa Roy, who is looking to unseat Feldstein Soto.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

I'm struggling now in an effort to unseat her, but it's no use.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Cameron tried to neutralize that advantage of incumbency as he outlined his own policy priorities for Kentucky’s economy if he unseats Beshear in the November election.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

It’s unlikely that Nelson unseats Miller Moss as the Trojans’ No. 2 quarterback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

The improbable return of Alex Smith from a horrific leg injury is worthy of Hollywood consideration, but the chances that he unseats Haskins, absent an injury to the younger player, are remote.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2020

In Kentucky, Democratic nominee Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot, would be the first woman to represent the Lexington-based 6th Congressional District if she unseats Republican Rep. Garland “Andy” Barr.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018

The least brush against the gallery unseats a part of the family. 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Many of these winning candidates have unseated entrenched incumbents, as 29-year-old Colorado attorney Melat Kiros did to U.S.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

A recent Ampere survey of of sports fans found that football has narrowly unseated baseball as the number three sport in the US, with 10% of Americans saying it's their favourite.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Former city Comptroller Brad Lander unseated Rep. Dan Goldman in a district that spans lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

He was unseated by Jeff Koons's "Rabbit" a year later.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

By themselves they had unseated the authority of a headmaster.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Here, it's Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie who has seen off challenge after challenge from the SNP, though they came within 109 votes of unseating her in 2016.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

There is no clear mechanism for unseating the regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

The debut of “Sinners” was triumphant, unseating “A Minecraft Movie” and topping the Easter weekend box office with $46.6 million domestically and $60 million globally while scoring rave reviews and an “A” ranking on Cinemascore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

As fate would have it, playing alongside his own captain in Tom Latham some 17 years later, Conway on Thursday etched his name on to that record list, but fell short of unseating his hero.

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

After three days’ hearing, the trial resulted in the unseating of Sir Henry Stracey. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie