cannibalize
Example Sentences
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He said that 24 of the last 42 net new U.S. warehouse openings were affecting Costco’s existing markets, “with many of these cannibalized locations being extremely high-volume.”
From MarketWatch
The strong print wasn’t enough to calm investors’ fears about AI cannibalizing the information-technology and consulting sectors.
From Barron's
Everyone was going to be able to be entrepreneurial and make themselves a business without necessarily cannibalizing their souls.
From Los Angeles Times
Their executives insisted they would never cannibalize sales outside China by exporting from those joint ventures, recalls Michael Dunne of market research and advisory Dunne Insights.
A farmer who owned a Model T didn’t need a forge or metal lathe to fix his engine; he could simply order a replacement part—or cannibalize one from a wrecked car in a junkyard.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
