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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

The military is influential in Ugandan politics - after all, they have deposed or attempted to depose numerous leaders since the nation became independent in 1962.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

Bush sent troops in 1989 to depose and arrest the president of Panama, Manuel Noriega.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

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

About that show, he deposes, “People said it increased their appreciation for the radical potentials in Elizabethan drama.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2014

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

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2013

Sprot now confesses that he knows he is to die, deposes that no man has promised him life, and that he has stated nothing in hope of life. 

From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

But her rhetoric has shifted since replacing her deposed predecessor.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

We’ve reported how deposed Commissioner Marty Makary and his biologics chief Vinay Prasad shifted standards for approving the treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Its other key ally, Bashar al Assad had been deposed as president of Syria and fled to Moscow.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Former Venezuelan industry minister Alex Saab, a close ally of deposed president Nicolas Maduro, was expelled to the United States on Saturday for a second time, Venezuelan officials said.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

Of all the Communist leaders deposed in the years bracketing the collapse of the Soviet Union, only Nicolae Ceaujescu met a violent death.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

The lightning operation combined naval, air and ground forces, deposing the strongman who had led Venezuela since 2013.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

Court records show that the agency disagreed with deposing Sessions and Nielsen on the grounds of the apex deposition doctrine, which serves to protect high-ranking officials from having to testify.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023

He succeeded in defeating and deposing them; but Arnulf fled to the Hungarians and incited them to a new invasion of Germany.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor