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supplant

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


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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

It has built powerful AI models and is working toward an unspecified “family of devices” to run them, devices that could supplant Apple’s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Shares in professional services firms have taken a beating this year on market jitters that artificial intelligence tools will supplant some of what they do.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

In this way, Goddard’s voice began to supplant his own internal moderator.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

The musicians who supplanted the East Village folkies were by that time dinosaurs themselves, having been rendered extinct by pop permutations several times over.

From Salon Aug. 29, 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

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

Nor was that the only evidence that the wild has supplanted the tame.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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

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

From this combination a meritocracy emerged, supplanting aristocracies in lands where feudalism had been weakened by progress.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 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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