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displace

[dis-plays] / dɪsˈpleɪs /




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“Club Kid” “Right now, it’s difficult to think of any film that could displace Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

New research has documented how honey bees chase, displace, and intimidate rival insects, providing the first detailed evidence of how extensively they interfere with other species' access to food.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The aggregate balance masks risks: Shocks to Chinese finished-goods exports displace rival suppliers, with imports from non-China sources falling about 3% after four years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

To stay at that level and not have anybody displace him is testimony to his ability and professionalism.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Rain or not, nobody in town that day wanted to miss out on seeing what sort of crew Ulbrickson had come up with that could displace his talented sophomores.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

But cooperation becomes ethically troubling when loyalty to an individual displaces the obligation to question, deliberate and act independently.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

In Thursday’s Macro Voices podcast, he noted that if AI displaces workers and reduces their earning power, then the outstanding debt still needs to be serviced.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

They are typically generated when a sudden disturbance, such as an earthquake, underwater landslide, or asteroid impact, rapidly displaces the water above it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

He warns against weakening workers' bargaining power, especially as technology displaces jobs and unemployment remains high.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

As an undergraduate, I was taught that Homo sapiens was one of these branches that emerged in Africa, spread across the world, and displaced every archaic human it encountered.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

"When solar panels were still relatively affordable, we bought one and kept moving it around to follow the sun," the 60-year-old, displaced by the fighting between Israel and Hamas, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

More than 1.5 million residents have been displaced within Haiti, many seeking shelter in schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

In court, it cited Savda Ghevra's schools, dispensaries and transport links as evidence that the area could accommodate the displaced families.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

We could equally say that Archimedes had recognized the implications of something he already knew—that he displaced water when he got into the bath.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

By the following morning, the military had cleared out the residents of the assailants' neighbourhood, displacing more than 3,000 people, according to the municipality.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

He set his sights on Brazil, where Russian diesel was displacing more expensive American fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The firm says that displacing imported liquified nature gas from the United States with gas from the Jackdaw field would save the equivalent of four million tonnes of CO2.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

This pattern raises the possibility that the wasps are displacing the ants completely, although the researchers say experiments would be necessary to confirm whether that is actually happening.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

The release of the North American Plate during the quake caused its outer edge to leap upward, displacing the water above it.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland


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