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supplant

[suh-plant, -plahnt] / səˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt /


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While artificial intelligence can help advisers operate more efficiently, there’s little indication that it can supplant experienced financial planners.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

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 goal, he says, is to supplant independent academic research with “an entire system of pseudoscience and grift.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

We saw its results in such geometries as Hilbert's and172 Peano's, where the empty name "entity" supplants the more concrete "point," and the "1" of arithmetic has the same character.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

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

In Japan, Toyota Motor saw its 22-year run as the country’s highest-valued company end this month, supplanted by SoftBank Group, which bet big on OpenAI and data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

The war even seems to have supplanted the rise of artificial intelligence as Wall Street’s top cause for concern.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

A ringing supplanted the silence in his head.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

Klapper described the AI tool as a co-intelligence, akin to a “judicial sous chef,” that will support members of the bench without supplanting them.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2026

As for world trade, the dollar still reigns supreme; no single alternative currency is anywhere near supplanting it.

From Slate Feb. 2, 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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