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unseat

[uhn-seet] / ʌnˈsit /
VERB
unsaddle
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


VERB
oust
Synonyms
STRONGEST
Antonyms
WEAK
VERB
remove from office
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Under the state’s unique balloting system, three candidates are running to unseat Sen. Dan S. Sullivan: Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola, a bandana-wearing gadfly named Gerald Heikes, and … another Dan Sullivan.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Pete Buttigieg went on the campaign trail last week with Conley to promote the candidate’s bid to unseat Lawler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Now, Kushner is volunteering to unseat the Republican incumbent, who has been in office since 1997.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Three candidates crowded the field looking to unseat Big Bill.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

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

Telling these stories unseats narratives that we can’t reach our full potential without leaving this place, or worst of all, that we don’t exist at all.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2018

He now began leaping sideways, a form of bucking that often unseats a rider, but Snake was proof against this.

From The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings

Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, where she has been sequestered since being unseated in a 2021 military coup.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Melat Kiros in Denver unseated a long-term incumbent.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Wilson, a first-time candidate, unseated incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell in part because voters were unhappy with the status quo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Two years later, Sosnick helped Streets for All pass Measure HLA and put $25,000 into a committee that backed attorney Ysabel Jurado, who unseated Councilmember Kevin de León.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Even though it was a donkey that unseated me, I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

They’d come to see Johnson appear with De La Cruz and two Republican challengers: Tano Tijerina, a much vaunted recruit running against Cuellar, and Eric Flores, the GOP hope for unseating Gonzalez.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

She was referring to the idea that Meta, or another competitor, could build agentic AI systems and integrate them into their own hardware products, unseating the iPhone as a hub for consumer-technology interactions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

There is no clear mechanism for unseating the regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

They drove off at a rattling pace, presently scattering the native traffic in the open square outside the Kars-el-Nil barracks, and nearly unseating a venerable sheikh from his slow-moving donkey.

From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal


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