supplant
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While artificial intelligence can help advisers operate more efficiently, there’s little indication that it can supplant experienced financial planners.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Shares in professional services firms have taken a beating this year on market jitters that artificial intelligence tools will supplant some of what they do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The goal, he says, is to supplant independent academic research with “an entire system of pseudoscience and grift.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
These new resources wouldn’t be used to supplant existing funding but rather to double funding for the NSF, NIH, Darpa and the Energy Department’s national laboratories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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This is a crucial piece to the puzzle, because production of one gigabyte of HBM supplants three gigabytes of other types of memory, worsening shortages down the line.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Flawless has been proactive, Mann added, about building a product that aids rather than supplants authentic human performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
Their carbon footprint will further drop as renewable energy supplants electricity generated from fossil fuels in the years to come, she said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
The real intrigue may be whether Pickett officially supplants Rudolph by then, a point that might be moot if a team calls inquiring about Rudolph’s availability.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
What, indeed, but a surrender of the paramountcy of struggle for life, is Huxley's celebrated Romanes lecture in which he supplants the cosmic process by the ethical?
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by O'Harra, Edwin V.
Framed this way, mathematicians are not in a race against A.I.s, waiting for the dreaded Kasparov moment when we become supplanted.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Once TV supplanted radio as a source for scripted entertainment, news and information became the primary mission of CBS’ radio division that began in 1927.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Like every other detail here, that implicit complaint is dusty and ossified, and Mr. Williamson’s formerly wised-up dialogue has been supplanted by a grinding earnestness, with everyone constantly asking about one another’s feelings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Today, wood gatherers have supplanted the usual walkers.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
A ringing supplanted the silence in his head.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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She wrote that considering legislative history “prevents the preferences of judges from supplanting the will of the people.”
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 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
Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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