supplant
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The dream scenario for SpaceX and Amazon is that they could eventually supplant terrestrial carriers as the main providers of wireless networks by promising seamless global coverage.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 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
These new resources wouldn’t be used to supplant existing funding but rather to double funding for the NSF, NIH, Darpa and the Energy Department’s national laboratories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing supplant
The Tempest
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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