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Traditional internet providers probably don’t have to worry much about satellite service supplanting core broadband offerings in the eyes of consumers.

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They may have been supplanted by digital job boards, but for much of the country’s history, they were one of the main sources to go to find work and workers.

Above all, what one of Mr. Fox’s subjects called “a change of attitude to time” becomes necessary, with intense mental concentration supplanting deadline anxiety and rushed execution.

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial system and sidestep its burdensome regulations.

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While it is still early, “ultimately technologies like this will likely play a role in supplanting every two weeks injections and taking daily pills,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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