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supplant

[suh-plant, -plahnt] / səˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt /


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After all, I’d never lay myself off, push any convoluted apps down my own throat, replace me with AI or let students use chatbots to supplant themselves.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

While artificial intelligence can help advisers operate more efficiently, there’s little indication that it can supplant experienced financial planners.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

But even if AI doesn’t supplant intelligence analysts, can it influence them, or soldiers and commanders?

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

The goal, he says, is to supplant independent academic research with “an entire system of pseudoscience and grift.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

This is a crucial piece to the puzzle, because production of one gigabyte of HBM supplants three gigabytes of other types of memory, worsening shortages down the line.

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

Their carbon footprint will further drop as renewable energy supplants electricity generated from fossil fuels in the years to come, she said.

From Washington Post Oct. 26, 2022

The real intrigue may be whether Pickett officially supplants Rudolph by then, a point that might be moot if a team calls inquiring about Rudolph’s availability.

From Seattle Times Aug. 18, 2022

“Even in a world of uncertainty and increasing competition, we’re optimistic about our long-term growth prospects as streaming supplants linear entertainment around the world,” Netflix said in a letter to shareholders on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 20, 2022

"That means the alien organ exactly duplicates the neural circuits it supplants."

From Collectivum by Mike Lewis

Framed this way, mathematicians are not in a race against A.I.s, waiting for the dreaded Kasparov moment when we become supplanted.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2026

Once TV supplanted radio as a source for scripted entertainment, news and information became the primary mission of CBS’ radio division that began in 1927.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

And after AI, some other transformative technology could emerge—just as AI has supplanted the enthusiasm over cloud computing, fracking, the internet and earlier breakthroughs that lifted the market.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

The war even seems to have supplanted the rise of artificial intelligence as Wall Street’s top cause for concern.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

The agents sped past the old trails that cowboys had once followed—trails that were now supplanted by cattle cars pulled by shrieking locomotives.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

For now, ideas are converging around a new human interface that will eventually replace the decades-old graphical approach and feature conversations with Siri supplanting mouse clicks and finger taps.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

Klapper described the AI tool as a co-intelligence, akin to a “judicial sous chef,” that will support members of the bench without supplanting them.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, other rivalries—with U.S. allies on both sides—are supplanting the Iran-Israel antagonism.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

Compton was seized with a vision of Lawrence supplanting his own authority by the sheer exercise of will, abetted by geography.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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