enthrone

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Recent Examples of enthrone King Charles was enthroned with the commanding St. Edward's Crown, used only to crown a new monarch. Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024 Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either. Holland Cotter, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024 For the proclamation ceremony enthroning Japan's Emperor Naruhito in Tokyo, Japan of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Crown Princess Victoria showed up in full formal dress—in Victoria's case, an elegant, bright purple outfit with a matching hat. Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2023 Khan’s populist and polarizing bid to regain power has been dealt a huge, most likely fatal blow by the institution that once enthroned Khan. Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for enthrone
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Verb
  • Worthy’s role was elevated last year because of an injury to wide receiver Rashee Rice.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • To elevate the roadhouse into a top-tier venue, Dalton confronts meddling patrons with a cutthroat, no-nonsense policy.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • This team is once again dealing with turnover at offensive coordinator, with Kevin Patullo promoted over the offseason to replace Kellen Moore, who is now head coach of the Saints.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The Commission was also unimpressed by Jackson continuing to promote SPIS’ data around the location on the pitch and timing of Paqueta’s bookings during the game during cross-examination, despite the fact that the FA had abandoned this evidence.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
    Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • While knowledge has been exalted by artists, poets, philosophers and scientists, dictatorships have been opposed not only by great humanists but also by science itself.
    Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Enthrone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enthrone. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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