established order

Example Sentences

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A newer, flashier toy posing a threat to the established order has been a running theme of the “Toy Story” franchise from the very beginning.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

"There has always been this illusion of an established order in skating. But it's just an illusion," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

All season long there's been questions asked of them and their capacity to keep going, to keep threatening to rip up the established order of things in Scotland.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

The very spirit of enterprise that lured Smithson’s money in the first place could also be associated with a kind of restlessness, mounting recurring challenges to the established order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

He hadn’t gone into exactly why, but the damn field threatened everything he had worked for all his life, it was holding a knife to the throat of the established order.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols