cannibalize
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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
There’s at least one executive in the artificial intelligence space who doesn’t think AI will cannibalize software companies: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 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 conference was scheduled to further debate whether internet gambling cannibalizes physical casinos later in the day on Wednesday.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
For Meta, there’s risk that Threads cannibalizes Instagram’s revenue over Twitter’s.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
The theater group’s Sunday statement rejected the notion that the simultaneous releases make financial sense for Disney, arguing that Disney+ revenue cannibalizes later video-on-demand sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
“It may be better that Telenor cannibalizes itself than someone else doing it.”
From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2018
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
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Now, he’s tackling another intractable problem: How to keep artificial-intelligence tools from cannibalizing the publishing industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
In previous investment cycles, Meta would launch new formats to keep up with competitors at the cost of cannibalizing its existing products.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
And she had started cannibalizing parts of her city to add on to its height.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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