verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Adams, an excellent new pitcher, may supplant Hayes as starting pitcher by the end of the year.
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General Salan was supplanted soon after the invasion by General Henri Navarre.
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Some would argue that New York has supplanted Paris as the center of new culture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brown instead hurt his heel in training camp, failed to supplant Albert Lewis and hobbled through an ineffective half-season.
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But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance.
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He might supplant Jones before the year is out.
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Simulation has also begun to supplant individual creativity.
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Sport utility vehicles have supplanted minivans in recent years as the top-selling family vehicle, according to trade experts.
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The arrival of man-made instruments represented the supplanting and indeed deliberate transcending of nature by human values.
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The usual summer crush of final exams was supplanted by the trappings of grief.
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Universities themselves have supplanted the intellectual leadership of the church which helped to create many of them.