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supplant

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


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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

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

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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