Ceded
Held
Held adjective - Occupied or in the control of; often used in combination.
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Victory Is Boring: She finally achieved her long-held dream of seizing the throne from her sister during The '90s, but she eventually found out that running an empire implied a round ton of paperwork to handle which proved too much for her and she eventually ceded the throne to her sister.
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