dethrone
Example Sentences
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The Miss Finland Organisation said dethroning Ms Dzafce was a "difficult but necessary" move.
From BBC
The American coffee company has lost market share in China to cheaper, local rivals such as Luckin Coffee, which dethroned Starbucks as the country’s biggest coffee chain by sales and stores in 2023.
The Aztec emperor Montezuma, one could say, was dethroned not so much by Cortés as by Old World germs and New World enemies.
South Korea has dethroned France as the biggest cosmetics exporter to the U.S., with over $10 billion in annual exports driven by K-beauty’s global popularity.
From Los Angeles Times
With the launch of Atlas, OpenAI isn’t just looking to dethrone Google Chrome as the default browser: It also wants ChatGPT to be the default operating system for the AI age.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.