unseated; unseating; unseats
1
: to dislodge from one's seat especially on horseback
2
: to remove from a place or position
especially
: to remove from political office
Examples of unseat in a Sentence
He unseated an incumbent senator.
The horse bucked and unseated its rider.
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Gutfeld! was the first late-night program to unseat Colbert as the ratings leader since 2017, and has topped the program for three years straight.
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Judith Y. Kim, The Washington Examiner, 23 July 2025
The tempestuous situation poses a myriad of thorny questions for which there are no easy answers considering no president ever has tried to unseat a Fed chair.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 July 2025
While Netflix’s licensed series Sullivan’s Crossing returned to #1 this week after being unseated by wrestling earlier, now it’s lost the top spot again to a new show that has debuted at #1, and may stay there a while.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Put simply: The US has never been this close to seeing what happens when the president moves to unseat the Fed chair.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
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Judith Y. Kim, The Washington Examiner, 23 July 2025
The tempestuous situation poses a myriad of thorny questions for which there are no easy answers considering no president ever has tried to unseat a Fed chair.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 19 July 2025
While Netflix’s licensed series Sullivan’s Crossing returned to #1 this week after being unseated by wrestling earlier, now it’s lost the top spot again to a new show that has debuted at #1, and may stay there a while.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Put simply: The US has never been this close to seeing what happens when the president moves to unseat the Fed chair.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for unseat
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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unseat
verb
un·seat
ˌən-ˈsēt 
ˈən-
1
: to throw from one's seat especially on horseback
2
: to remove from a place or position
especially
: to remove from political office
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