supplanted
Example Sentences
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The musicians who supplanted the East Village folkies were by that time dinosaurs themselves, having been rendered extinct by pop permutations several times over.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 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
Like not a few of those seduced by the wild, McCandless seems to have been driven by a variety of lust that supplanted sexual desire.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
