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unseating

  • present participle of unseat.

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There is no clear mechanism for unseating the regime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

As fate would have it, playing alongside his own captain in Tom Latham some 17 years later, Conway on Thursday etched his name on to that record list, but fell short of unseating his hero.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

O’Rourke came within 3 percentage points of unseating Cruz in that race.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2024

Meyer has so far delivered on that initial confidence, even unexpectedly unseating the Trojans incumbent, all-conference defensive tackle, Bear Alexander, to earn a starting spot through the first two weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

Inexperienced in such delicate maneuvers and overtaken at the crises by the climactic unseating of Death, he had poured into the empty memory banks the whole contents of his own mind.

From The Short Life by Donovan, Francis