supplant
Example Sentences
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“This assistance does not supplant the judicial officer’s independent role in decision-making.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 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
“We don’t know how they were doing business—and now we want to come in and supplant them as the new vampires sucking out wealth,” Naranjo said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
George Furbank was expected to come in at full-back, but instead Marcus Smith and Elliot Daly are thought to be in the running to supplant Freddie Steward.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 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
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