supplanting

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Given the confluence of increasing anxiety among young people and couples supplanting procreation with pet ownership while remaining unable to purchase homes, the increased demand for pets in rental housing seems unavoidable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

For now, ideas are converging around a new human interface that will eventually replace the decades-old graphical approach and feature conversations with Siri supplanting mouse clicks and finger taps.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Klapper described the AI tool as a co-intelligence, akin to a “judicial sous chef,” that will support members of the bench without supplanting them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Traditional internet providers probably don’t have to worry much about satellite service supplanting core broadband offerings in the eyes of consumers.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 22, 2025

Her son’s resistance to schoolwork was a mild disorder that many children go through, but his study of chess, an intellectual activity, was supplanting it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady