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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Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Nov. 2025
Lombardo flipped the governorship in the 2022 midterms, unseating then-Governor Steve Sisolak in what became a warning sign for Democrats about the state's trajectory two years later.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
Which isn’t to say that the eventual meeting of the minds won’t be colored by at least one seismic upheaval, as the YouTubes and Netflixes flex their zillion-dollar market caps in a bid to unseat one of the NFL’s loyal TV partners.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Nov. 2025
Williams faces a tough environment to unseat Warner, a former Virginia governor who has served as a senator since 2009.
—Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2025
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 24 Nov. 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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