displace
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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 defender is a key player for her club but struggles to break into the England team with Bronze understandably a tough figure to displace.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Used this way, AI could strengthen rather than displace the judgment and self-belief that underlie agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Economists call this creative destruction: Innovations displace old products and technologies, so a job that disappears can also a result in a new one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
When I became Joe’s ’prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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But if additional gas production from Jackdaw displaces gas imports from Norway instead then UK-related national emissions could be higher than otherwise.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
According to the researchers, Alzheimer's may begin when a-beta displaces tau from microtubules.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
The carrier is 178 metres long and displaces 30,000 tonnes, they said, adding it was on its way to Kandla in India.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
The Pentagon has estimated that the Fujian, which displaces more than 80,000 tons when fully loaded, can deploy up to 40 fixed-wing aircraft alongside a complement of helicopters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
“No!” whispered Montag, “The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at. dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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According to the simulations, the impact violently displaced vast quantities of rock and seawater, producing a towering curtain of debris before the material collapsed back into the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
"We thank those displaced from their homes overnight for their co-operation at a worrying time as we support them in returning home."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Amount of Anthropic’s shares the company is to commit to a public benefit fund that could be distributed to charitable organizations or directly to people whose livelihoods are displaced by AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
“However, the Chumash people were displaced, their lands taken, forced slavery missions, all of those things. They have earned the right to manage this area.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Anger had displaced timidity, and he was going to play shifgrethor with me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ocha said in a statement that the area reportedly struck on Friday had been "under sustained atttack in recent weeks, displacing thousands of civilians and exposing many more to grave harm".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
Its warning this week showed that investments in AI infrastructure such as memory and new cybersecurity concerns are displacing spending on hardware, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
A nearby hotel and a two-story single-family dwelling were evacuated, displacing 10 adults and two children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
Pet interrupted her by appearing slowly, a heaviness displacing the air.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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