cannibalize
Example Sentences
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The advent of data analytics showed that Goodwill could cluster stores closer together than previously believed without cannibalizing sales.
Instead of cannibalizing each other’s voters, Ms. Haley and Mr. Scott, he said, could consolidate their resources if one of them were to suspend their presidential bid to support the other.
From New York Times
“We are two states that do not have to compete and cannibalize each other … cannibalization for investment is a mistake,” Alfaro said.
From Seattle Times
Built in the late 1990s some are likely to have been cannibalized for spare parts no longer manufactured.
From BBC
You need spares because when a part breaks on the one you’re using, you have to cannibalize the part from another one.
From New York Times
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