depose

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Recent Examples of depose On the same day, Lively’s attorneys filed a letter directed at Wayfarer Studios, after the company requested an extension of the discovery schedule to depose Swift. Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Lively has already been deposed. Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025 Just five days later, on September 9, demonstrators stormed and set fire to key government buildings, deposing the administration, as the BBC reported. Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 None of Lake’s cases produced the evidence needed to support her broadsides and she was never deposed in those matters. Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for depose
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Verb
  • Although a majority of the Israeli public had been pushing for a hostage-and-ceasefire deal, Netanyahu’s extremist coalition partners have threatened to topple his government if the war ended and the Israeli military withdrew entirely from Gaza.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • These novels were published before the revolutions of 1989, which would topple communism in the country.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • McCarthy pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for testifying against four of his co-conspirators, per The Bay Area Reporter.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Phypers additionally testified that Richards called him 17 times in less than a week after she was granted the temporary restraining order.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • By analyzing discourses on development squarely within Native American studies, Yazzie situates capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism into the politics of nation-building.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • We were situated in an immense valley peppered with boulders and desert agave plants—the site, Mikkelsen told me, of a winter village of the Kumeyaay people, who have inhabited the region for more than 10,000 years.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • The Mercury dethroned the defending champion Liberty and knocked off the top-seeded Lynx.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • By shirking the Democratic brand, Osborn has a shot at winning his race, as Cockburn points out, and may offer a model for other candidates attempting to dethrone Republicans in rural red states.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yousef Obeid kicked a 25-yard field goal with just over four minutes remaining to put the Bears up for good in Murfreesboo, Tennessee.
    The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Green’s 11-yard touchdown run put Arkansas ahead 7-0.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • His uncles got sacked, picked off, hit in the mouth, too; both of them got up to ultimately win.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Phillips sacked Rodgers, a key play in the fourth quarter of a close game.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Moscow has also touted a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) capability, enabling warheads to be placed on low-Earth orbital trajectories toward their targets, a profile that complicates early detection and interception.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Per the affidavit, Rinderknecht walked to an area known as the Hidden Buddha clearing, where there’s a stump from an old utility pole where people often place Buddha figurines.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And Tucker Carlson has gained attention with his own programming distributed via social and digital media, Their audiences can be smaller and more disparate than the ones that come to mainstream news outlets, but in an era of cord-cutting, their niche power is not to be dismissed.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In February, following a SAG Award win for her breakout role in Shōgun, Anna Sawai dismissed rumors that she had been cast as Yoko Ono for the film series.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025

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