That Bill Gates will be dethroned as the world's richest man in 2008.
Five years ago, another likeable but unknown moderate Republican, George Pataki, dethroned New York's main political celebrity, Mario Cuomo.
The coiffed Canadian crooner is Twitter's first new king or queen since Gaga dethroned Britney Spears in August 2010.
Hopkins dethroned George Foreman as the oldest boxer to win a world title when he beat Jean Pascal in 2011.
Google in the fourth quarter dethroned Nokia as the world's largest maker of smartphone software, according to market researcher Canalys.
As for Gates, he may soon be dethroned as the world's richest man, a title he has held for a decade.
"Novell was on top and got dethroned, " says high-tech marketing guru Geoffrey Moore, chairman of The Chasm Group in San Mateo, Calif.
But the dethroned Peacock chief stopped short of trash-talking his former network.
Like that other dethroned strongman, Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, he used his podium, twinning his own plight with that of his nation's perceived humiliation.
But science has dethroned philosophy now because it is so successful.
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When a KOM-holder is dethroned, Strava sends him an email that begins, "Uh oh, " then details who set the new record and by how much.
After he had been dethroned in 1927 by Alexander Alekhine, Jose Raul Capablanca pursued the new world champion for years without being granted a rematch.
Casual social games maker King.com has dethroned Zynga at the top of the Facebook games chart with its hit cross-platform game Candy Crush Saga.
Antonio Tarver, the now dethroned undisputed light-heavyweight champion, unleashed a low blow on the tussle of the old-timers for The Ring Magazine light-heavyweight belt on Saturday.
To boil all this down to the simple yes or no question I asked in my headline, no, Instagram will not be dethroned by animated GIF apps.
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Since 1975, the world champion's name has always started with a K. Anatoly Karpov held the title from 1975 until Garry Kasparov dethroned him a decade later.
Ireland's King of Kings dethroned French champion Xaar to land a first British classic for trainer Aidan O'Brien in the Sagitta 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.
These once-novel methods of chip design have done respectably in specialist applications, but have not dethroned Intel as it was suggested they might when they were launched.
They have just abruptly dethroned their long-serving editor, Stefan Aust.
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Hooper was roundly viewed as playing a positive role in the team's development, but, despite a vote of confidence from head selector Richards, the 36-year-old has been dethroned by Lara.
The biggest artists in terms of following on Twitter are well-known, Justin Bieber recently dethroned the queen of social media monsters Lady Gaga and now counts more than 38 million followers.
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Which pop star dethroned Lady Gaga on Twitter?
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Toyota, which is scheduled to release first-quarter numbers next week, dethroned GM to retake the top spot in 2012, a year in which VW posted record sales and came within 190, 000 vehicles of beating GM.
Despite giving away 33lb in weight and four inches in height, Jones outclassed Ruiz over 12 rounds to become the first former middleweight world champion to win a heavyweight title since Britain's Bob Fitzsimmons dethroned James J Corbett in 1897.
Among the international stars on show on Sunday are Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele, who goes in the 3, 000m and 5, 000m, and Russia's dethroned world champion Yelena Isinbayeva, who goes head-to-head with her Polish successor Anna Rogowska in the women's pole vault.
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