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Hip-hop, a genre he'd disparaged as "tone deaf", had dethroned R&B as the sound of urban America.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2023

Coffey’s Oilers months before that 1984 goal had dethroned Bossy’s Islanders as Cup champions to start their own dynastic run.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2022

By the second, it had dethroned the then-impregnable The Cosby Show.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2018

In 2011, there were a lot of companies trying to be the next Facebook—to dethrone the dominant social network the way it had dethroned Myspace a few years earlier.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2017

He sat until he saw her sunk in a quiet, gentle sleep: ease had dethroned pain, and order had begun to dawn out of threatened chaos.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George