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Recent Examples of throne
Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
With one year left and her throne on the line, Queen Mo — who is 39 — and her raven sidekick JoJo hatch increasingly desperate schemes.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
And like Clemson last year, LSU de-throned the defending champion in the title game (winning 42-25), though this one was on a 29-game winning streak.
—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 14 Jan. 2020
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Noun
Ultimately, Paul’s ascension to the imperial throne is not the happily-ever-after ending that, say, Aragorn’s crowning represents in The Lord of the Rings.
—Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
With one year left and her throne on the line, Queen Mo — who is 39 — and her raven sidekick JoJo hatch increasingly desperate schemes.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
Kate Daly, relationship expert and cofounder of online divorce service amicable, shared the pros and cons of throning.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
And like Clemson last year, LSU de-throned the defending champion in the title game (winning 42-25), though this one was on a 29-game winning streak.
—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 14 Jan. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throne
Noun
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Constitution Party candidate Brendan Gomez, who ran for the seat in 2024, and independent Sarah Zabel also are in the race and advance to the November general election because their primaries are uncontested.—
Kevin Fixler
May 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 May 2026
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California Democrats responded with voters approving a map that will likely net the party five more seats in November.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 May 2026
Verb
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Celebrations in the United States include maypole dances, crowning a May Queen, bonfires and other community gatherings.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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In the world of commercial publishing, there are few crowning achievements more coveted than a place on the New York Times Best Seller List.—
Willa Rubin,
NPR,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Collectors long held the shoe on a pedestal, and it was never made available again until Kith was able to revive for a Miami-exclusive release 15 years later.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
7 May 2026
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The Greek goddess stands on a pedestal, holding a golden apple bestowed on her for her beauty — a classic ideal of beauty as old as, well, ancient Greece.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
Verb
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The resort, wellness center, villas and residences are enthroned at the top.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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As reason and science were being enthroned, the Gothic Romance exploded, full of emotion and thrills.—
Guillermo del Toro,
The Atlantic,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Max Clark went 2-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored, driving in the winning run in the top of the seventh inning as Barnstable (9-5) defeated Mashpee, 8-6.—
Tyler McManus,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
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Several areas in the facility were unclean with excess grease/debris/residue including brown spill stains on top of the microwave and the floor below the main cook line.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
May 8,
Sacbee.com,
8 May 2026
Noun
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The theater, declared a landmark in 1988, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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With just 15 percent of its land planted to Sangiovese—known locally as Brunello for over 400 years—Brunello di Montalcino is often hailed as the pinnacle of the variety.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
3 May 2026
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Many of the precautions a traveler could take are similar to those that became familiar at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
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Schlamminger said that’s a notable difference — such as measuring the height of a human and being a millimeter or two off.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Emery’s eminence in Europe has been predicated on managing two-legged contests, knowing that the pace and rhythm is different.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.—
Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Throne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throne. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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