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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Investigators found that initial structural failure spread to other elements of the pool deck and street-level parking garage and caused cracks to grow over the span of a few weeks, eventually unseating the southern edge of the pool deck slab from its supporting wall, the report said.
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Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
Before running for governor and unseating Democrat Steve Sisolak in 2022, Lombardo served eight years as sheriff in Nevada's Clark County.
—Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, CBS News, 22 June 2026
In Texas, more than $5 million from Protect Progress helped Christian Menefee, 38, unseat 78-year-old Representative Al Green in a Houston-area runoff, the most expensive House primary in the state; the ads focused on generational change and never mentioned cryptocurrency.
—Tonya M. Evans, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 14 June 2026
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Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
Before running for governor and unseating Democrat Steve Sisolak in 2022, Lombardo served eight years as sheriff in Nevada's Clark County.
—Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, CBS News, 22 June 2026
In Texas, more than $5 million from Protect Progress helped Christian Menefee, 38, unseat 78-year-old Representative Al Green in a Houston-area runoff, the most expensive House primary in the state; the ads focused on generational change and never mentioned cryptocurrency.
—Tonya M. Evans, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni unseats the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless as the new best high-end wireless gaming headset.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 14 June 2026
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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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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