supplanted

Example Sentences

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In 1614, after Carr’s seven years in favor, Villiers supplanted him in the king’s affections.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

More recently, separatist-controlled eastern Libya has supplanted Chad as the main Emirati supply route towards Sudan, said Emadeddin Badi, a researcher at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

His love of baseball has been supplanted by the Sport of Kings.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

But from the internal perspective of the law, it is striking that many of these early-stage orders have either reversed or supplanted factual findings of lower courts.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025

Only with the introduction of trucks and tanks in World War I did horses finally become supplanted as the main assault vehicle and means of fast transport in war.

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