dethronement

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Noun
  • Spurs released a statement late on Sunday night clarifying their position following days of speculation after the removal of Daniel Levy as executive chairman on Thursday.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Yet despite pushing for the changes, supervisors voted on none of them — allowing the removal to occur without a formal public input process.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • New York made four errors on the evening, including two overthrows that led to multiple free bases on the same play.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Fields, who went 7-of-11 on the day, had a few overthrows on plays that likely were sacks.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Protesters, many older adults, were calling for the expulsion of the Israel-Premier Tech team which was stopped last week during a time trial by activists holding Palestinian flags.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This latest expulsion followed an earlier Trump order revoking TPS protections granted by Biden in 2023 to another 348,000 Venezuelans, which brings the total number of expulsions of Venezuelan immigrants to more than 600,000.
    Andres Oppenheimer September 5, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His colleagues, four justices appointed by President Lula and his left-wing predecessor Dilma Rousseff, will follow (De Moraes was nominated by Michel Temer, the center right president that succeeded Dilma after impeachment).
    Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has railed against unfavorable judicial rulings and in one case called for the impeachment of a federal judge in Washington who ordered planeloads of deported immigrants to be turned around.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Wilcox challenged the dismissal.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The hammer blow was last week's dismissal by the Constitutional Court of Thaksin's daughter and protege Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the sixth prime minister from or backed by the Shinawatra family to be removed by the military or judiciary.
    Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The deposition was part of a lawsuit filed by Lisa Jackson, a former manager of one of Paula’s restaurants, Uncle Bubba’s Seafood and Oyster House.
    Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In 2013, the celebrity chef confessed to having used the slur in a legal deposition.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The 30-year-old accepted a voluntary provisional suspension on June 2, which will now expire on April 2, 2026 following the outcome of European football’s governing body.
    Colin Millar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Lucky for the Eagles, a remorseful Carter won't receive a suspension for his spit.
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That was until additional tips to the company’s hotline led to an investigation and Freixe’s ouster.
    Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the use of the military as leverage to dismantle a criminal regime won't leave Venezuela without leadership.
    Kristina Foltz, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Dethronement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dethronement. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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