cannibalize
Example Sentences
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The advent of data analytics showed that Goodwill could cluster stores closer together than previously believed without cannibalizing sales.
And then, suddenly, they discover that the upstarts have cannibalized their markets.
From New York Times
Instead of cannibalizing each other’s voters, Ms. Haley and Mr. Scott, he said, could consolidate their resources if one of them were to suspend their presidential bid to support the other.
From New York Times
Painters are always lifting ideas, scenarios and styles from other painters, then cannibalizing ideas they’ve come to think of, rightly or wrongly, as their own.
From Washington Post
“We are two states that do not have to compete and cannibalize each other … cannibalization for investment is a mistake,” Alfaro said.
From Seattle Times
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