usurped
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Gemini 2.5 Pro, released in March 2025, and Gemini 3.0 Pro, released in November 2025, enjoyed brief stints at the frontier until Anthropic’s Claude models usurped them, Schwarz said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
State Farm was this year usurped as the nation’s biggest personal auto insurer by Progressive, losing a throne held since World War II.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Ultimately, society’s ingrained fear of missing out on making money will be usurped by the fear of losing money.
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
Political cartooning is a dying art, usurped by illustrations that trade intelligent ribbing for low-brow button pushing — or, equally as startling, memes that require minimal effort to make.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025
But by halfway through the fifth century BC—again, not long before Gorgias arrived—its judicial function had mostly been usurped by the Heliaea,** which was open to absolutely anyone.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
