supplanter

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Jacob was a popular boy’s name in Old Testament times, and meant "the one who grasps," "the angler," "the deceiver" or "the supplanter."

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2022

The station was killed off by the proximity of Holborn, more popular because it was an interchange, and I'm pleased to see its supplanter at least has the grace to recognise its phantom existence.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2013

Why, the BBC Trust, more systemically censorious supplanter of the old board of governors – which nevertheless retains the right to criticise or even fire the man they hired.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2010

Hergesheimer appears in the paper covers of Tauchnitz or his supplanter, beloved of globe-trotters�Three Soldiers is seen Teutonified to Drei Soldaten�Theodore Dreiser's Twelve Men makes a Gallic bow as Douse Hommes.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the “most unkindest cut of all” had been Cromek’s, in making his own friend of thirty years’ standing the supplanter of his work, the thief of his idea.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene