supplanted

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New Jersey was once a favorite legal home for corporations, but Delaware supplanted it by establishing specialized business courts and legal rules that protect corporate directors and officers from frivolous lawsuits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Today, wood gatherers have supplanted the usual walkers.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

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

Soon other traders began to call Mollie’s father Jimmy, and before long it had supplanted his Osage name.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann