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unseating

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verb

present participle of unseat

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseating
Noun
  • The database, which was confirmed by U.S. officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • That said, removal proceedings could potentially take many years to complete given big backlogs in immigration courts.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The flower stem can grow to be two to three feet tall or more, often making the plant somewhat top-heavy, so staking or weighing down the container can help prevent the pot from toppling over.
    Janet Carson, arkansasonline.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Then came Ukraine’s Maidan revolution in 2013, when tens of thousands of Ukrainians filled Kyiv’s Maidan square for days before toppling the pro-Russia regime.
    Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Andrei Kelin, Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, was expelled in retaliation to the ouster of two British Embassy staff in Moscow, the Foreign Office said.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Join 8 others in the comments View Comments Nissan has been beset by years of faltering sales and management turmoil, never fully recovering from a hit to its brand following the 2018 ouster of former chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was accused by Tokyo prosecutors of financial misconduct.
    Reuters, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The six-hour meeting in Istanbul last Thursday, where the delegations worked to try to restore the normal functioning of their embassies after years of tit-for-tat expulsions, was the latest sign of a thaw between the two countries.
    Reuters, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • On social media, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student groups, demanded the immediate reversal of three Barnard students’ expulsions.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The defendants will answer Gastineau’s complaint and motion for its dismissal.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • However, judges in separate cases have ordered officials at the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board to be reinstated after similar dismissals, signaling continued legal battles over Trump’s authority to reshape independent agencies.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 12 shots for the Panthers, who continue to play without key stars Matthew Tkachuk (groin), Aaron Ekblad (suspension) and recent acquisition Brad Marchand (upper-body injury).
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
  • His appointee as chief executive for U.S. Agency for Global Media embarked on a series of suspensions, visa revocations and investigations that were found, in some instances, to violate the law and federal policy.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The letter also asked Carlos Pino to take care of their father, Carlos said during his deposition.
    Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
  • This process is repeated many times in a series of etching, doping, and deposition steps to create up to one hundred layers; the patterns in those layers end up defining the circuitry of a computer chip.
    Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Unseating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseating. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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