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
I believe as the years go on it will be said of this week in Washington: 'There, in that pact, humanity took its great step to enthrone the great freedoms of the world.'
From Time Magazine Archive
But he scored only 48 points less than that, to top Mathias' Olympic mark and enthrone himself as the greatest all-round athlete in the world.
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
She enters a community and breaks the iron of slavery, bestows equality on all, and enthrones in power public opinion.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
It's not so essential, but it crowns and enthrones its possessor and is life's rarest gift: pure charm.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
Since it must believe in some- thing besides itself, it enthrones matter as deity.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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
She will be enthroned on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by the Prince of Wales.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 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
Hierarchies in art, with painting and sculpture enthroned at the top, don’t make sense either.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Posterity has rewarded him by enthroning him on the highest peaks of musical fame.
From The Great German Composers by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
But this can furnish no ground for subjecting one, and enthroning the other.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
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