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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

Soccer probably won’t supplant my love for baseball, football, basketball and hockey — but I can now mention it in the same breath as them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

This principle holds that higher authorities should support rather than supplant the responsibilities of families, communities and intermediary associations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries.

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

But those earnings could become more volatile if artificial intelligence supplants the sort of back-office systems that TCS provides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

In other cases, the court simply supplants its own intuition or understanding of the facts for that of the trial court, a fundamental violation of the deference normally afforded trial court findings of fact.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2024

The recently snared behemoth supplants the previous record of 18 feet, 9 inches, which was set in 2020 by professional trappers.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

The Wilson bill, which supplants the McKinley bill, fills about as many pages of the heavy unruled parchment, which, by-the-way, we send to England to buy.

From Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 by Various

The survey shows that fears about surging borrowing costs have even supplanted worries about the AI trade possibly turning into a bubble.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

China supplanted America as the world’s leading exporter of manufactured goods in 2010, and the gap has only widened since then.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

Its owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, declined as air travel and highways supplanted intercity train travel in America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

José Arcadio Segundo, who took a long time to discover that he had been supplanted, was unable to understand his brother's passion.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

At a time when servers are being shut down, physical media is being digitized out of existence, and the subscription model is supplanting personal ownership, Ruth believes this is a way to have data autonomy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

However the multinational bank also believes that a potential offering from Charter and SpaceX would fall short of supplanting any of the major cellular service providers in the U.S.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

She wrote that considering legislative history “prevents the preferences of judges from supplanting the will of the people.”

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 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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