supplanting

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For now, ideas are converging around a new human interface that will eventually replace the decades-old graphical approach and feature conversations with Siri supplanting mouse clicks and finger taps.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

As for world trade, the dollar still reigns supreme; no single alternative currency is anywhere near supplanting it.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

Cutting emissions can sometimes look like what economists call creative destruction, with green innovators supplanting polluters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Those attributes has helped Stafford move to the cusp of supplanting Eli Manning in 10th place on the NFL’s career passing yardage list.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane