supplant
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“Voice of a Century” is not intended to supplant Allan Keiler’s definitive 2000 biography—one of Mr. Tommasini’s main sources, along with Anderson’s endearing but circumspect 1956 autobiography, “My Lord, What a Morning.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
After all, I’d never lay myself off, push any convoluted apps down my own throat, replace me with AI or let students use chatbots to supplant themselves.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
But even if AI doesn’t supplant intelligence analysts, can it influence them, or soldiers and commanders?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
This was the Rockefeller Foundation, which soon would supplant every other source as Ernest Lawrence’s preeminent philanthropic sponsor.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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But those earnings could become more volatile if artificial intelligence supplants the sort of back-office systems that TCS provides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
Instead, he supplants Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts as the league’s top-paid player, based on the average annual value of his deal.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
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
To think the object A as non-existent is first to think the object and consequently to think it existent; it is then to think that another reality, with which it is incompatible, supplants it.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
By contesting the decision, you might have supplanted positive memories with ill will and friction.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Ramírez’s personal politics would be supplanted by crude criminality; beginning as a revolutionary, he ended up as a money-grubbing freelance mercenary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
Once TV supplanted radio as a source for scripted entertainment, news and information became the primary mission of CBS’ radio division that began in 1927.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
What was surprising was the speed with which her relief that Robbie was alive was supplanted by her dread of confronting him.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Artificial-intelligence giant Anthropic is expected to go public as soon as next month in what could be the biggest IPO ever, supplanting SpaceX’s record $85 billion offering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
She challenged whether supplanting the charter is “in the best interest of the kids... To me, closing this school will have absolutely immediate, disastrous consequences.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
She wrote that considering legislative history “prevents the preferences of judges from supplanting the will of the people.”
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Compton was seized with a vision of Lawrence supplanting his own authority by the sheer exercise of will, abetted by geography.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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