Thesaurus results for SUPPLANTS

supplants

verb

present tense third-person singular of supplant

as in replaces

to take the place of old traditions that were fading away and being supplanted by modern ways

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Recent Examples of supplants Leaders who build these practices into how AI gets deployed now safeguard their organizations from a culture where AI supplants human reasoning rather than supports it, and from the performance costs that follow. — Chris Rosenberg, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 The new tool – called Alexa for Shopping – supplants Rufus, the shopping assistant bot that summarized product reviews and suggested purchases. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 May 2026 Chinese hot mustard supplants Dijon in leeks vinaigrette. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026 Empathy emerges from clinical competence, not ideological instruction that supplants scientific rigor. — Torie Bosch, STAT, 2 May 2026 The 16-year-old Swiss sensation, who claimed her fifth title of 1997 at the Lipton Championships on March 29, supplants Steffi Graf in the WTA Tour rankings. — Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026 For Venezuela, that means a transition led by Venezuelans, accountable to Venezuelans, with international support that strengthens — not supplants — sovereignty. — Rick Singh, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026 There’s no world, even when Dre Greenlaw returns, in which Greenlaw suddenly supplants Singleton as the mike linebacker in Denver’s defense or Justin Strnad starts over him. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025 Heavy water, therefore, supplants its two regular hydrogen atoms with two deuterium atoms. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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While solar roofs are not new, Hongqi’s approach replaces conventional crystalline silicon cells with thin and flexible perovskite photovoltaic materials.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
The indictment replaces the original charges filed against Mays in 2024.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026

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Genesis also argued that the county lacked authority to revoke the permits because federal law supersedes local regulations.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
The real fix to this situation is to enact a federal framework that supersedes the state-by-state patchwork of regulations on autonomous vehicles.

— Mark Dalton, Oc Register, 26 Aug. 2026

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