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supplant

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


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“Voice of a Century” is not intended to supplant Allan Keiler’s definitive 2000 biography—one of Mr. Tommasini’s main sources, along with Anderson’s endearing but circumspect 1956 autobiography, “My Lord, What a Morning.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Big tech rivals have long tried to supplant Apple, but thus far Google, Samsung, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.com have all failed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Instead, he supplants Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts as the league’s top-paid player, based on the average annual value of his deal.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023

The thrift of self-possession supplants the recklessness of irresponsibility.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various

By contesting the decision, you might have supplanted positive memories with ill will and friction.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 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

The rise of AI has initiated the latest round of anxiety that workers might be supplanted by machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

She told him how the strange animal had supplanted her and how nobody had been prepared to listen to her explanation at the beginning.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

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

Her son’s resistance to schoolwork was a mild disorder that many children go through, but his study of chess, an intellectual activity, was supplanting it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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