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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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Tuberville ultimately unseated Doug Jones, the incumbent senator from Alabama and the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate in decades.
—Sonam Sheth
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
There’s nothing Musgrave can do to unseat fellow 2023 draft pick Tucker Kraft as the feature tight end, but the emergence of another versatile tight end who can make plays down the field would do wonders for Green Bay’s offense.
—Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 19 May 2025
As of now, no major and powerful elite group in Russia could clearly gain from unseating Putin.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 5 Jun. 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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