CANNIBALIZING Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

cannibalizing

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to remove parts from a machine, car, etc., to repair or build another one He cannibalized one washing machine to fix another. Many parts of the engine were cannibalized from older cars.

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Recent Examples of cannibalizing Benioff said the numbers show that AI is strengthening rather than cannibalizing the business, pointing to the very companies once viewed as a threat to traditional software-as-a-service, or SaaS. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 This is only slightly more massive than the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy (approximately 400 million solar masses), which the Milky Way is currently cannibalizing and an order of magnitude less massive than the Small Magellanic Cloud. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Nevertheless, Miller is not worried about the two cars cannibalizing each other’s sales. — James Morris, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026 But on top of that, many series decide to submit only one episode per category to keep from cannibalizing their own vote totals. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 June 2026 Rather than cannibalizing the lean-back view, the two screens stack, pointing to an audience that has normalized simultaneous fast and slow consumption rather than choosing between them. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 June 2026 Whether there’s enough demand to soak up this flood of new equity without cannibalizing the tech giants that have been leading the market higher for years is an active debate on Wall Street at the moment. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026 Now chatbots are cannibalizing the traditional search engine. — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026 Some of those consequences will be borne by the production’s cast and crew, with the leak possibly cannibalizing viewership when the movie officially premieres on Paramount+ in October. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026

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Researchers have developed a new vision algorithm that lets humanoid robots perceive depth more like humans, using two forward-facing eyes.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Earlier this month, The Financial Times appended a note to a guest column after readers questioned whether it was written using AI.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026

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Consider recycling unfixable clothing, and reselling or donating clothes that simply don’t fit you or no longer suit your style.

— Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 28 Aug. 2026
Removing dye, however, is only useful to recycling if the process does not destroy the cellulose along with it.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026

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