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But there is reason to doubt that traders’ interest in the new products will cannibalize exchanges to the degree that investors fear.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

Ships break down, sailors have to cannibalize parts, and the fleet fires weapons faster than the nation can replenish them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

“In fact, we believe hyperscalers are more likely to attempt head-on competition, going after GPU cloud business as the natural adjacency to traditional cloud,” which could cannibalize CoreWeave’s business.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026

In this case, it has come from states that have legalized sports betting, such as Nevada, and are worried that the prediction markets could cannibalize their legal offerings and evade their gambling regulations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

I dread the time when I shall have to cannibalize the recorder.

From The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

They think investors will be focused on whether Foundayo cannibalizes any demand for Lily’s other weight-loss drug Zepbound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

The initiative will likely be a test to whether it cannibalizes higher-priced attendance on other days, Reese said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

The conference was scheduled to further debate whether internet gambling cannibalizes physical casinos later in the day on Wednesday.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

For Meta, there’s risk that Threads cannibalizes Instagram’s revenue over Twitter’s.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023

“It may be better that Telenor cannibalizes itself than someone else doing it.”

From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2018

Reddit, once the internet’s premier place to talk about the news, was cannibalized by invite-only chatroom platforms like Discord and Telegram.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

This time around, yield-sharing between platforms is more common, which has reduced overall outflows but also cannibalized off-platform holdings, Engel explained.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

He said that 24 of the last 42 net new U.S. warehouse openings were affecting Costco’s existing markets, “with many of these cannibalized locations being extremely high-volume.”

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 5, 2026

“It dwindled down to 16 functioning buses, and the rest were being cannibalized in order to maintain a minimum level of functioning buses.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

We cannibalized Dragonwings to make a stretcher for Father out of the wooden poles and canvas.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Nearly 70% of DraftKings Predictions sports trading volume is coming from states without legalized Sportsbook, according to Hickey, signaling that predictions markets aren’t cannibalizing DraftKings’ sports-betting business at a high rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

And rather than cannibalizing demand for classical computing, the firm expects demand to ramp up, to the tune of $100 billion by 2040.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

But it must be actively defeated; it would be a grave mistake to assume it will dissipate after losing momentum or cannibalizing itself.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026

Everyone was going to be able to be entrepreneurial and make themselves a business without necessarily cannibalizing their souls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

Sometimes these projects acquired construction materials by cannibalizing old monuments, thereby hastening the process of creating ruins.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann