supplanted
Example Sentences
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China supplanted America as the world’s leading exporter of manufactured goods in 2010, and the gap has only widened since then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
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
Its owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, declined as air travel and highways supplanted intercity train travel in America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Just as the smartphone supplanted PCs as people’s main computing device, someday something will replace it.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Every few minutes the insects' piercing whine is supplanted by the boom of distant thunder, rumbling over the taiga from a wall of thunderheads rearing darkly on the horizon.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
