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- verb Present participle of
dethrone .
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Examples
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We should be careful about dealing with a country that helped our decline when they helped in dethroning our first president Kwame Nkrumah.
Global Voices in English » Ghana: Bloggers React to Obama’s Speech 2009
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The third will be the initial experiment among the western powers in dethroning the cult of multiculturalism.
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Not only was Schilling instrumental in dethroning the Yankees, but he battled Roger Clemens, who 10 years ago was responsible for turning Curt's career around.
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Along the way to dethroning the aging Celtics in the 1987-88 NBA season, the Pistons encountered another team on the cusp of greatness in the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Notably, even with this lopsided advantage and Thompson's failure to raise enough in contributions to receive the maximum possible CFB match of $7,697,500, Thompson still came within less than five percentage points of dethroning the relatively popular two-term incumbent, no doubt, in part, because the matching funds Thompson received helped enable him to run a viable campaign.
Morgan Pehme: Pulling the Trigger: U.S. Supreme Court Threatens Campaign Finance Reform in NYC Morgan Pehme 2011
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Both the French or American revolutions were first of all about dethroning absolute power …
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Notably, even with this lopsided advantage and Thompson's failure to raise enough in contributions to receive the maximum possible CFB match of $7,697,500, Thompson still came within less than five percentage points of dethroning the relatively popular two-term incumbent, no doubt, in part, because the matching funds Thompson received helped enable him to run a viable campaign.
Morgan Pehme: Pulling the Trigger: U.S. Supreme Court Threatens Campaign Finance Reform in NYC Morgan Pehme 2011
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Videogame maker Nintendo Co. ranked the highest among Japan's top companies, dethroning longtime leader Toyota Motor Corp.
Japan 2010
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Notably, even with this lopsided advantage and Thompson's failure to raise enough in contributions to receive the maximum possible CFB match of $7,697,500, Thompson still came within less than five percentage points of dethroning the relatively popular two-term incumbent, no doubt, in part, because the matching funds Thompson received helped enable him to run a viable campaign.
Morgan Pehme: Pulling the Trigger: U.S. Supreme Court Threatens Campaign Finance Reform in NYC Morgan Pehme 2011
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Notably, even with this lopsided advantage and Thompson's failure to raise enough in contributions to receive the maximum possible CFB match of $7,697,500, Thompson still came within less than five percentage points of dethroning the relatively popular two-term incumbent, no doubt, in part, because the matching funds Thompson received helped enable him to run a viable campaign.
Morgan Pehme: Pulling the Trigger: U.S. Supreme Court Threatens Campaign Finance Reform in NYC Morgan Pehme 2011
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