unseated; unseating; unseats
1
: to dislodge from one's seat especially on horseback
2
: to remove from a place or position
especially
: to remove from political office
Examples of unseat in a Sentence
He unseated an incumbent senator.
The horse bucked and unseated its rider.
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Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
With representatives from the disloyal states still unseated in Congress, New Jersey Democrat Andrew Jackson Rogers articulated their perspective.
—Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Six Degrees of Andrew Cuomo: Get to Know the New York Governor's Famous Inner Circle
Cuomo first announced his bid to unseat Adams, who recently faced federal criminal charges, in a post shared on X on Saturday, March 1.
—Meredith Kile, People.com, 3 June 2025
The lieutenant governor took the feud to the next step on Monday, announcing his run to unseat her in next year’s primary.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 2 June 2025
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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unseat
verb
un·seat
ˌən-ˈsēt 
ˈən-
1
: to throw from one's seat especially on horseback
2
: to remove from a place or position
especially
: to remove from political office
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