deposed

verb

past tense of depose
1
as in sacked
to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) a military junta deposed the dictator after he had bankrupted the country

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2
as in testified
to make a solemn declaration under oath for the purpose of establishing a fact she was nervous when the time to depose before the jury finally arrived

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3
as in situated
to arrange something in a certain spot or position deposed her fan and gloves on the dressing table

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Recent Examples of deposed In the 2022 election, Sara was the running mate of presidential candidate Marcos Jr, son of the dictator who ruled for 20 years before being deposed in 1986. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 9 July 2026 She who can be deposed and required to answer for her reasoning under oath. — Afnan R. Tariq, STAT, 8 July 2026 Recruitment processes are described as clearer and more aligned following the departures of Daniel Levy, the former executive chairman who was deposed in September last year, and ex-managing director of football Fabio Paratici. — Mark Critchley, New York Times, 4 July 2026 On June 23, Los Angeles County Court declined to compel Woods to be deposed in California, as the defendants' legal team requested. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 The earthquakes pose a great challenge to Rodriguez, the former vice president whose governing coalition took shape after the United States mounted an operation that captured and deposed President Nicolás Maduro. — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026 Many voters had hoped the election would draw a line under years of political chaos that has seen a string of presidents jailed, deposed and impeached. — CBS News, 24 June 2026 The Joyces are set to be deposed when discovery is complete. — Olivia Bensimon, Curbed, 17 June 2026 For fruit plantations, Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was deposed in 1954. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deposed
  1. sacked
  2. testified
  3. situated
  4. dismissed
  5. placed
  6. toppled
  7. put
  8. dethroned
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  • At Universal Studios’ CityWalk, the original from the film — last seen on screen in flames as Troy was brutally sacked by Damon’s army of rampaging Greeks — is on display outside the AMC Universal Cinema.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 July 2026
  • This time last year, the 52-year-old was sacked as Red Bull’s team principal after 20 years.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 7 July 2026
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  • Prosecutors also presented surveillance footage captured from a distance that Hull testified showed Robinson running across the rooftop of the Losee Center, a building on UVU’s campus near the courtyard where Kirk’s event was taking place.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Hull testified that Robinson later returned in different clothing, walking with a limp, rolled onto the roof of a building on campus and crawled to the edge of the rooftop around the time the shot was fired.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 10 July 2026
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  • The Pool is situated on a coastal stretch known as the Golden Mile, a strip that runs from the center of Marbella to Puerto Banús, lined with palm trees, restaurants and luxury resorts.
    — Sabrina Nelson Garcinuño, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • The deaths of three people in a boat crash on Lake Pepin over the weekend have rocked the small town situated in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi River.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 13 July 2026
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  • Jason Melara’s attorney, Andrew Stein, asked the two murder charges be dismissed, telling Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Curtis Rappe there was no evidence his client pointed a gun at Aguilar.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • In 2023, researchers at MIT and elsewhere proposed that the bright white chunks scattered throughout Roman concrete—known as lime clasts and long dismissed as evidence of incomplete mixing—could help explain the material’s self-healing properties.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 11 July 2026
Definition of dismissed
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  • Those severe heat illness cases need to be placed in cooling bags to cool their bodies down within 30 minutes.
    — Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2026
  • Comparing trends in recent years, Marti placed the first semester of 2026 on par with the first half of 2023, which had previously marked the strongest start to a year since cinemas reopened following the pandemic.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2026
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  • The record comes just one day after Argentina toppled Switzerland 3-1 at Kansas City (Arrowhead) Stadium, marking the end of the last World Cup game in the city.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
  • In the coastal city of Yueqing in Zhejiang province, more than 1,300 trees were toppled, including at least 700 uprooted, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 July 2026
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  • In his fifth-inning at-bat, Stephenson was on the other side of two successful challenges by Rutschman that put him down 1-2 in the count instead of up 3-0.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 6 July 2026
  • Go on, put the 131-cube (2,147 cc) monster engine into that one.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
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  • Jaws became the very first summer blockbuster and was the highest-grossing movie of all time (until Star Wars dethroned it two years later).
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • When the alpha is dethroned, his replacement typically does in his predecessor’s cubs so that the females in the pride will breed again.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Definition of dethroned

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