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[dih-pohz] / dɪˈpoʊz /


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Laura Overdeck also contacted Siegel, hoping her lawyers could depose him, partly to try to show that her husband’s Two Sigma stake is worth more than he claimed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

“We want to depose their experts and probe and test their experts’ opinions,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Pitt’s legal team previously attempted to depose Stoli executive Alexey Oliynik in 2025, claiming that he had relevant information pertaining to the Jolie deal.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Sadie Weldon, a private citizen, sought to depose the Lilith Fund’s deputy director using a special Texas mechanism called a 202 petition that allows people to investigate a potential claim before filing suit.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2026

At the conference that December, we in the Youth League knew we had the votes to depose Dr. Xuma.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

One night, after shooting wrapped for the day, Ruffalo went home to prepare for a big scene in which Bilott deposes DuPont’s CEO.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2019

“There was no one I could tell that I had been wounded, that I had a concussion,” one woman deposes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017

As Hagopian writes, “ESSA deposes one of the cruelest aspects of the test-and-punish policy under NCLB: the so-called ‘Adequate Yearly Progress’ annual test score improvement requirement that labeled nearly every American school failing.”

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2016

Three months of missed targets, and the catfish deposes the leaders he or she has been shadowing.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2013

Lyons, council of, the English deputies at, deposes Frederick II.,

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Many a deposed Caribbean or South American leader has followed a route familiar to Super Bowl champions and snowbirds.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Alvin Hellerstein, the US judge overseeing the case against deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, has died aged 92, an official said Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Myanmar is now facing a landmark genocide case at the International Court of Justice, which saw deposed leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi testify.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The tablet records a royal grant and indicates that Tiglath-pileser probably ruled from roughly 763-762 BCE before eventually being deposed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Justice had been deposed from his chieftaincy by the government and was then living in Durban.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing -- who ordered the coup deposing Suu Kyi and now serves as civilian president -- on Thursday said she would serve the remainder of her sentence at a "designated residence".

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

An ally that will never fail, no matter who out there is deposing you.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025

Back in the 9th District, once Ross stepped aside and let her critics take the microphone to make the case for deposing her, they lost steam.

From Slate ● May 6, 2024

South Africa - the defending champions, who enacted their own Parisian revolution last weekend by deposing the hosts - have long set the sort of standards to which England coach Steve Borthwick's men aspire.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023

The parliament had a publication of an Italian Jesuit, Santarelli, burned, which ascribed to the pope the right of deposing kings, condemning them to temporal punishments and loosing their subjects from their oath of allegiance.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou


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