depose
Example Sentences
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Black had been set to be deposed as part of the Bank of America lawsuit before the sides reached a settlement.
The Protestant defenders of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1689, which deposed an autocratic monarch and established a constitutional government, were armed with a biblical text deeply rooted in Tyndale’s translation.
Some firefighters on hose pickup duty that day have not been deposed in the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times
My mother’s uncle governed Iran for 93 days before he was deposed.
After all, the concept is considered antithetical or anathema to the Iranian Revolution, which deposed the monarchy led by the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1979.
From Salon
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