supplant

Example Sentences

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“This assistance does not supplant the judicial officer’s independent role in decision-making.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

“We don’t know how they were doing business—and now we want to come in and supplant them as the new vampires sucking out wealth,” Naranjo said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Injury then gave Marcus Smith the chance to supplant Ford in the pecking order on the 2024 tour of New Zealand, before Fin Smith emerged in last year's Six Nations.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

Businesses rely on legal software and data service companies to do much of this work, and investors fear Anthropic’s tool could supplant them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

But that advantage alone doesn’t fully explain how initially so few European immigrants came to supplant so much of the native population of the Americas and some other parts of the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond