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Recent Examples of unthrone Under Armour and Curry still have work to do to unthrone Nike and the King, but the Curry 4 is a promising indication of where UA could be in a couple years time. Jake Woolf, GQ, 14 Dec. 2017
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Verb
  • When Nkrumah was deposed, all these films were destroyed by his successors, who wanted to erase all evidence of his rule.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, the president’s lawyers reportedly pushed for Murdoch to be deposed within 15 days due to his age.
    Martina Di Licosa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Two days after that, Bayer Leverkusen sacked Erik ten Hag.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His parting vision of her funeral pyre both recalls and anticipates the devastated city of Carthage, sacked by Rome.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • No subsequent franchise title has been able to topple that record, although many are betting on Last Rites to do just that.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But that dynasty has long been loathed by Thailand’s powerful conservative and royalist establishment which, with the help of both the military and courts, has frequently toppled or tied up Shinawatra-run governments.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The actor denied the allegations, and the case was later dismissed, per The Hollywood Reporter.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Those who dismissed intersectionality saw such policies as little more than allowing the disadvantaged to commit crimes without consequences to make up for past inequities, afflicting crime victims from the same disadvantaged communities.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On June 3, 1988, the Pistons uncrowned the Boston Celtics, 95-90, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals to win the series, 4-2.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2020
  • Many considered him Italy’s uncrowned sovereign, the steward of the country’s economic renaissance from the postwar period through the turbulent 1970s.
    Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2017

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

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