supplant
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It might not be a coincidence that Vermeer’s stock started to rise in the mid-1800s, when photography began to supplant painting’s monopoly on images.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The dream scenario for SpaceX and Amazon is that they could eventually supplant terrestrial carriers as the main providers of wireless networks by promising seamless global coverage.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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This is a crucial piece to the puzzle, because production of one gigabyte of HBM supplants three gigabytes of other types of memory, worsening shortages down the line.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Flawless has been proactive, Mann added, about building a product that aids rather than supplants authentic human performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
Their carbon footprint will further drop as renewable energy supplants electricity generated from fossil fuels in the years to come, she said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
The real intrigue may be whether Pickett officially supplants Rudolph by then, a point that might be moot if a team calls inquiring about Rudolph’s availability.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Authority takes the place of judgment, dogmatism supplants thought.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Framed this way, mathematicians are not in a race against A.I.s, waiting for the dreaded Kasparov moment when we become supplanted.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Private mini-markets and clothing stores with well-stocked shelves have largely supplanted state "bodegas" and ration books in the past five years since SMEs were introduced.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Those nominations numbers continued the shift that has been taking place the last several years as Cannes has supplanted the fall film festivals as the event with the most sway at the Academy Awards.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Like every other detail here, that implicit complaint is dusty and ossified, and Mr. Williamson’s formerly wised-up dialogue has been supplanted by a grinding earnestness, with everyone constantly asking about one another’s feelings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Athens herself by the mid-third century had already been supplanted by RJhodes as the leading mercantile democracy in the Aegean.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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However the multinational bank also believes that a potential offering from Charter and SpaceX would fall short of supplanting any of the major cellular service providers in the U.S.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
She challenged whether supplanting the charter is “in the best interest of the kids... To me, closing this school will have absolutely immediate, disastrous consequences.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
From this combination a meritocracy emerged, supplanting aristocracies in lands where feudalism had been weakened by progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Her son’s resistance to schoolwork was a mild disorder that many children go through, but his study of chess, an intellectual activity, was supplanting it.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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