supplant
Example Sentences
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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
City leaders hope F&M Bank Amphitheater of Long Beach, located next to the famed Queen Mary, will supplant declining revenues from oil extraction and lead to an uptick in tourism.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
The games aim to complement human life and imagination, Ms. MacDonald suggests, not supplant them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
The gains validate a bold bet by Charter Chief Executive Chris Winfrey: that cable could survive, if no longer thrive, by embracing the apps that had begun to supplant the traditional TV bundle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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
Vocabulary lists containing supplant
The Tempest
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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