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

Meanwhile, other rivalries—with U.S. allies on both sides—are supplanting the Iran-Israel antagonism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 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