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supplant

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


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The dream scenario for SpaceX and Amazon is that they could eventually supplant terrestrial carriers as the main providers of wireless networks by promising seamless global coverage.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 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

As those EVs gain market share abroad, Chinese software and AI may supplant U.S. rivals as the global standard.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Recall that business leaders spent years telling us that AI would assist human workers, not supplant them.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

In other cases, the court simply supplants its own intuition or understanding of the facts for that of the trial court, a fundamental violation of the deference normally afforded trial court findings of fact.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2024

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

Naturalism of rendering takes the place of conventional decorative treatment, and elaborate minuteness of finish supplants the broad freedom of direct brushwork.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

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

Its owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, declined as air travel and highways supplanted intercity train travel in America.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

Those nominations numbers continued the shift that has been taking place the last several years as Cannes has supplanted the fall film festivals as the event with the most sway at the Academy Awards.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

Just as the smartphone supplanted PCs as people’s main computing device, someday something will replace it.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

He was one of the gods who’d supplanted Athena as a war deity.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

For now, ideas are converging around a new human interface that will eventually replace the decades-old graphical approach and feature conversations with Siri supplanting mouse clicks and finger taps.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

The evangelist Billy Graham solidified his appeal by supplanting hymns with the style of music to which teens and young adults flocked; Broadway even chimed in with the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 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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