supplanting

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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

Klapper described the AI tool as a co-intelligence, akin to a “judicial sous chef,” that will support members of the bench without supplanting them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

As for world trade, the dollar still reigns supreme; no single alternative currency is anywhere near supplanting it.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

While it is still early, “ultimately technologies like this will likely play a role in supplanting every two weeks injections and taking daily pills,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane