supplant
Example Sentences
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Recall that business leaders spent years telling us that AI would assist human workers, not supplant them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
“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
Georges Laforgue is still on the Literature and Languages faculty at Hampden, where his enemies have still not managed to supplant him.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing supplant
The Tempest
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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