cannibalize

Ships break down, sailors have to cannibalize parts, and the fleet fires weapons faster than the nation can replenish them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

The idea that AI won’t cannibalize artists and their work on a massive scale is refreshingly utopian, but in many ways so was the fair itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

Google’s advances in AI are powering solid growth in search, and offsetting fears that its Gemini agent would cannibalize its biggest revenue contributor.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

“In fact, we believe hyperscalers are more likely to attempt head-on competition, going after GPU cloud business as the natural adjacency to traditional cloud,” which could cannibalize CoreWeave’s business.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026

I dread the time when I shall have to cannibalize the recorder.

From The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

They think investors will be focused on whether Foundayo cannibalizes any demand for Lily’s other weight-loss drug Zepbound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

The initiative will likely be a test to whether it cannibalizes higher-priced attendance on other days, Reese said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

Then there is the ongoing debate in the industry over whether internet gambling cannibalizes physical casinos.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

Media executives are trying to build profitable streaming services even as cable providers argue they are subsidizing a business that cannibalizes their own.

From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2023

For Meta, there’s risk that Threads cannibalizes Instagram’s revenue over Twitter’s.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023

Google has also shown that AI has expanded, not cannibalized, its search-engine business.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

This time around, yield-sharing between platforms is more common, which has reduced overall outflows but also cannibalized off-platform holdings, Engel explained.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

“It dwindled down to 16 functioning buses, and the rest were being cannibalized in order to maintain a minimum level of functioning buses.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

Without Venu as a threat, sporting still constitutes one of the few live-TV options that hasn’t been completely cannibalized by streaming just yet.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024

There was even a song people in the book sang, and soon everyone all over the messed-up, invaded, and cannibalized planet began to hear the song constantly in their heads.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

MLV and PVF merged after sharing a similar vision and joining forces to avoid cannibalizing the market.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Nearly 70% of DraftKings Predictions sports trading volume is coming from states without legalized Sportsbook, according to Hickey, signaling that predictions markets aren’t cannibalizing DraftKings’ sports-betting business at a high rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

And rather than cannibalizing demand for classical computing, the firm expects demand to ramp up, to the tune of $100 billion by 2040.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

But it must be actively defeated; it would be a grave mistake to assume it will dissipate after losing momentum or cannibalizing itself.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026

Sometimes these projects acquired construction materials by cannibalizing old monuments, thereby hastening the process of creating ruins.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann