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

If the world is not sufficient, I will conquer planets for you, I will dethrone the gods.

From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de)