dethronement

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Noun
  • Since attacks like SessionReaper can expose your personal data to criminal marketplaces, consider using a reputable data removal service that continuously scans and deletes your private information, such as your address, phone number and email, from data broker sites.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Sky Roberts, the brother of the late Jeffrey Epstein accuser, cried when reflecting on how his sister would have reacted to the removal of the former prince's title and honors.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Douglass’s former North Star co-editor, Martin Delany, who had been admitted to Harvard Medical School but was forced out after white students complained, responded to Dred Scott — and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — by writing a novel whose hero escapes bondage and plots an overthrow of slavery.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This led to the overthrow and death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and years of chaos and civil strife.
    David Smilde, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Israel’s first occupation of Gaza was characterized by war crimes, massacres, and expulsions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Robert Eggers' first feature tells a folk horror tale about a devout family — led by father William (Ralph Ineson) and his wife, Katherine (Kate Dickie) — living on an isolated farm in 1630s New England after their expulsion from Puritan society.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Long-time political writer Andrew Sullivan wrote earlier this year that this theory has support stretching back to the 1970s and the impeachment and resignation of Richard Nixon (in whose White House Cheney served, early in his career, along with several other Bush cabinet members).
    Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • By 2019 Trump was refusing to cooperate with congress, especially in connection with his impeachment.
    John M. Crisp, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Parents said they were told the dismissal was not the result of criminal wrongdoing or abuse allegations.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That immediate dismissal stirred up a new determination within the aspiring firefighter.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The reason for this striking look is the inhibitor gene which suppresses pigment deposition at the base of the hair shaft, giving the cat the shimmering effect.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is expected to sit for a deposition Thursday morning in a lawsuit over his agency’s immigration enforcement tactics in the Chicago area.
    Devan Cole, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While that included Jimmy Kimmel’s controversial suspension in September, more relevant was CBS’ surprise decision this summer to cancel The Late Show, which is hosted by Stewart’s old colleague Stephen Colbert.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The suspension of government data because of the government shutdown, which is nearing the longest on record, has made the Fed’s job of judging the economy even more difficult.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Khan blamed the army and the United States for engineering his ouster, and led energetic protests demanding immediate, fresh elections.
    Rafia Zakaria, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Tidmarsh’s ouster is the latest in a string of haphazard leadership changes at the agency, which has been rocked for months by firings, departures and controversial decisions on vaccines, fluoride and other products.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Dethronement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dethronement. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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