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to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)
a governor who was unseated by the first successful recall in the state's history
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Recent Examples of unseating
Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
26 Dec. 2025
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
Before running for governor and unseating Democrat Steve Sisolak in 2022, Lombardo served eight years as sheriff in Nevada's Clark County.
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Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
The Spurs seemed emotionally spent after exhausting all of their energy in unseating the defending champions.
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Mark Medina,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
The bank was a founding partner of the Valkyries, who already rank as the WNBA’s most valuable team at $850 million; the Warriors are the NBA’s most valuable, unseating the Knicks’ stranglehold on the spot in 2023, per ’s rankings.
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Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
3 June 2026
In a decisive upset, Democrat John Forbes won his party’s nomination in the June 2 primary election for Polk County supervisor in District 1, unseating incumbent Matt McCoy.
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Virginia Barreda,
Des Moines Register,
3 June 2026
Crawford was first elected Canyon County Coroner in 2018 after unseating incumbent Vicki Degeus-Morris.
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Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
20 May 2026
Pollsters say the former union president has a shot at unseating the GOP incumbent.
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Michael Loria,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
Heap, a former Republican state lawmaker, was elected in 2024 after unseating incumbent Stephen Richer in the GOP primary and defeating a Democratic candidate in the general election.
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Josh Kelety,
Twin Cities,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
Princess Anne, seemingly unbowed by her recent unseating as Britain's hardest-working royal, walked alongside husband Sir Timothy Laurence.
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Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
26 Dec. 2025
Verb
Investigators found that initial structural failure spread to other elements of the pool deck and street-level parking garage and caused cracks to grow over the span of a few weeks, eventually unseating the southern edge of the pool deck slab from its supporting wall, the report said.
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Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2026
Before running for governor and unseating Democrat Steve Sisolak in 2022, Lombardo served eight years as sheriff in Nevada's Clark County.
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Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
The Spurs seemed emotionally spent after exhausting all of their energy in unseating the defending champions.
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Mark Medina,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
The bank was a founding partner of the Valkyries, who already rank as the WNBA’s most valuable team at $850 million; the Warriors are the NBA’s most valuable, unseating the Knicks’ stranglehold on the spot in 2023, per ’s rankings.
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Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
3 June 2026
In a decisive upset, Democrat John Forbes won his party’s nomination in the June 2 primary election for Polk County supervisor in District 1, unseating incumbent Matt McCoy.
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Virginia Barreda,
Des Moines Register,
3 June 2026
Crawford was first elected Canyon County Coroner in 2018 after unseating incumbent Vicki Degeus-Morris.
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Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
20 May 2026
Pollsters say the former union president has a shot at unseating the GOP incumbent.
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Michael Loria,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
Heap, a former Republican state lawmaker, was elected in 2024 after unseating incumbent Stephen Richer in the GOP primary and defeating a Democratic candidate in the general election.
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Josh Kelety,
Twin Cities,
17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseating
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Haitian soldiers seasoned on American battlefields during the revolution later sparked Haiti’s overthrow of French colonial rule, depriving France of its most profitable slave colony and ending one of the most brutal enslavement of human beings in modern world history.
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Then in 1973, Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his secretary of state, plotted the overthrow of yet another democracy in Chile, propping up the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Conspicuously absent in the edit is the follow-up question from the attorney deposing Cavanaugh, who asked whether DOGE actually managed to reduce the deficit.
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While the opposition Conservative Party has a history of deposing prime ministers while in office, Labour does not, said Jonathan Tonge, a professor of politics at the University of Liverpool.
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Federal authorities last year ordered the removal of herds from protected Indigenous territory on the world's largest river island, Bananal Island.
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Some of those include panniculectomies (Ozempic skin removal surgery) and abdominoplasties (tummy tucks).
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Organizing your beddings into groups will also help prevent them from toppling over.
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Such pinches have been toppling financial firms for decades.
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Houston has relented, however, following the council’s ouster of Commissioner Omar Farmer, an outspoken police critic, and a cooling-off of tensions between Houston and Commissioner Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, the current chair of the watchdog body.
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And he was so reviled by the Hollywood establishment that none other than Frank Sinatra hand-delivered a letter calling for his ouster.
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The result was so emphatic that the Tunisian soccer federation acted fast, sacking manager Sabri Lamouchi just hours after.
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Villa’s then sporting director Monchi reportedly attempting a straight swap of him for goalkeeper Emi Martinez last summer is a sacking offence (perhaps literally).
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Dugan resigned from her position as a Milwaukee County circuit judge two weeks after her conviction amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers.
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Dugan resigned from her position as a Milwaukee County circuit judge two weeks after her conviction amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers.
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Messi's 17th and subsequent 18th goal during the game set a new bar in the World Cup for top scorer— dethroning Germany's Miroslav Klose who had previously held the record at 16 goals.
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Joe Louis became heavyweight boxing champion of the world by dethroning James Braddock in front of 41,675 paying customers in Comiskey Park.
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“Unseating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseating. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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