dethrone
verb (used with object)
to remove from a throne; depose.
will dethrone
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future tenseof dethrone.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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It is no longer such a certainty that China will dethrone America economically, according to recent International Monetary Fund reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
And he has no illusions that, say, avocado tostadas will dethrone burritos on the sales charts anytime soon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2018
We have Apple Pay, PayPal, Google Wallet, MasterCard, Visa, M-Pesa, bitcoin, and hundreds of alt-coins spawned by bitcoin, all of which claim that they will dethrone good old-fashioned cash.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2015
He lives only for the day when, in some miraculous burst of virtuosity, he will dethrone the hated Prima Donna.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your article historically will dethrone two saints,—Williams and Lord Baltimore.
From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by William Elliot Griffis
