supplant

Example Sentences

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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

City leaders hope F&M Bank Amphitheater of Long Beach, located next to the famed Queen Mary, will supplant declining revenues from oil extraction and lead to an uptick in tourism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The company fell further behind Anthropic, whose recent advancements stirred fresh fears that AI could supplant traditional software and services, briefly triggering a stock-market selloff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Some experts and rights activists say the new ethnic-unity law passed Thursday will effectively supplant 1980s legislation that mandated some autonomy for regions with large ethnic-minority populations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

But that advantage alone doesn’t fully explain how initially so few European immigrants came to supplant so much of the native population of the Americas and some other parts of the world.

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