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By her metrics, Pesto has reached an audience of about 5 billion and appears to have dethroned Thailand’s adorably erratic baby pygmy hippo as the internet’s favourite animal.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024

If the Mavericks win, they will have dethroned a Suns team that won a franchise-record 64 games, including an 18-game win streak.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

It’s this insistence upon independence that, more than anything, may have dethroned J. Crew.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017

But … Isn't this type of goal better kept quiet, working and working until the market says you have dethroned the incumbent?

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2011

A people who have dethroned kings, destroyed Bastilles, and established a Republic, can not lose in a day the fruits of the emancipation of the 18th of March.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John