enthrone
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The fund helped steady the finances of war-ravaged Europe, enthrone the dollar as the international currency and shore up U.S. allies from Britain to Korea.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2017
And the knights launched a revolt to enthrone the son of one of them, 20-year-old Stanislas Parvulesco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015
Gladly Japan poured out the equivalent of a million dollars a day for 16 days to enthrone "The Son of Heaven."
From Time Magazine Archive
By virtue of this mandate, I ... do induct, install and enthrone you, Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey . . . into the archbishopric and the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly, "he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he could your brother."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Von Stuck delights in contrasts: On the “Orpheus wall,” he enthrones the mythical lyre-player above tamed animals in an architectural fresco based on Pompeian murals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Karole Armitage's choreography also keeps the joint jumping and Scott Pask's design ironically enthrones the excellent band in a vast military truck.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2010
The soul of all the great medieval period encircles this silver coffin, wrapping it up into a noble unity, and enthrones on the very summit of death.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Music is the fairy that invests Cinderella's accents with royal robes, and enthrones them on the lips of all mankind.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
He enthrones the Madonna as Queen of Heaven, seated by the side of the risen Saviour, surrounded by the angelic hosts.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
A former nurse made history Wednesday when she was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the centuries-old mother church of the world's 85 million-strong Anglican community.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
While such preparatory drawings often focused on the figures alone, Filippino devotes equal attention to the architectural setting, in this case an open loggia on which the saint is enthroned and surrounded by angels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
When he was two years old, a search party of Buddhist officials recognised him as the reincarnation of the 13 previous Dalai Lamas and he was enthroned before he turned four.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
One was full of singers, enthroned like Brynden in nests of weirwood roots that wove under and through and around their bodies.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
As the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner once said, “Our country, be she right or wrong: a sentiment dethroning God and enthroning the devil.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2017
Besides his plays and satirical romances he wrote the first modern history of philosophy, enthroning Reason after severe skirmishes with the Church and two emperors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning his son.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are enthroning Him in their imagination and are drawing Him to their hearts.
From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones
In literature, both prose and verse, the rationalistic and practical spirit showed itself in the enthroning above everything else of the principles of utility and common sense in substance and straightforward directness in style.
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
