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supplant
verb as in displace, replace
Example Sentences
His love of baseball has been supplanted by the Sport of Kings.
The technology has brought one of those inflection points when new companies have a chance to supplant incumbent powers, the same way the incumbents were once challengers.
These monsters have supplanted coal generators as the workhorses of the U.S. power grid because they are more efficient, less polluting and more flexible.
That official would, in effect, supplant the supervisors as the top decision-maker for the facilities, setting budgets and hiring staffers.
Using the military to supplant the government of California or Los Angeles would undoubtedly be unlawful.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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