Established and Overthrew

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Established adjective - Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established.

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Overthrew is an antonym for established.

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Established is an antonym for overthrew.

Essentially a political party only ever known by its unsubtle acronym of LORDS overthrew the republic government and established the Proletarian Eclectic State of Terra (a totalitarian regime).

Source: Literature / Warlock of Gramarye
So, she overthrew the outdated monarchy and established the Earth Empire, becoming an even worse tyrant than the previous Earth Queen (albeit with much more noble intentions).

Source: He Who Fights Monsters
That started to change in the 1960s and 1970s, as the black majority in those countries — again, largely communist groups — overthrew the European colonial powers and established independence.

Source: Useful Notes / The Apartheid Era

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