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Recent Examples of unseat Speaking at a Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, Vance acknowledged the industry’s efforts in the previous election, underscoring its role in the Ohio Senate race that unseated crypto-skeptical Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D). Julia Shapero, The Hill, 28 May 2025 Last year unseated 2023, the previous record holder for dangerously high temperatures. Alana Wise, NPR, 20 June 2025 Sirens has been dominating the Netflix charts for a couple weeks now, only being temporarily unseated by two Mondays of WWE RAW. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 Andrew Cuomo is currently running as both a Democrat and third-party candidate to unseat N.Y.C. Mayor Eric Adams, who is facing federal criminal charges. Meredith Kile, People.com, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for unseat
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Verb
  • Onganía’s rule lasted only a few years before he was deposed and replaced by another general, and soon the political chaos was matched by economic disruption.
    Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Before Attacking Iran, The IAF Made Syrian Airspace More Accessible Than Ever Before After armed opposition groups in Syria finally deposed the Assad regime in a lightning November-December 2024 offensive, Israel swiftly took action.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • In 2011, Barack Obama conducted an 8 month campaign in Libya to topple Gaddafi.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • According to an Israeli official familiar with the government’s strategy, Israel is targeting these sites to put pressure on the Iranian administration but is not actively seeking to topple it.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Both candidates lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson. 1937: Joe Louis became heavyweight boxing champion of the world by dethroning James Braddock in front of 41,675 paying customers in Comiskey Park.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • Charlotte dethroned defending champion Hershey followed by a dismantling of regular-season champion Laval, becoming the first team to accomplish the feat in the same postseason since the Checkers did it in 2011.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 14 June 2025

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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseat. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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