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Recent Examples of supplant
James supplanted Hall of Fame former shooting guard/small forward Michael Jordan to become the oldest NBA player ever to earn some MVP votes.
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
The goal should be to complement extant altruism without supplanting it.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
The mama supplants all the other mother types that have come before her.
—Amanda Hess, Vogue, 8 May 2025
The Oilers needed more from their regular-season starter who was supplanted by Calvin Pickard less than six periods into this playoff run and only returned to the crease because of a Pickard injury.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 12 May 2025
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
The goal should be to complement extant altruism without supplanting it.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
The mama supplants all the other mother types that have come before her.
—Amanda Hess, Vogue, 8 May 2025
The Oilers needed more from their regular-season starter who was supplanted by Calvin Pickard less than six periods into this playoff run and only returned to the crease because of a Pickard injury.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplant
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Bills introduced last week would have replaced the RTA with a new entity called the Northern Illinois Transit Authority that would be given broad planning authority.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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There were a few obvious hurdles: Tom Holland, who played Gregory Cromwell, was now too famous, and Bernard Hill, who starred as the Duke of Norfolk, died before production (he was replaced with Timothy Spall).—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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However, this does mean that this technology is becoming dated and has been superseded by the following two generations.—
Matt Morris,
Space.com,
25 May 2025
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This, though, was superseded by the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act, which granted birthright citizenship to all non-citizen Native Americans born within the U.S. And, in 1898, the high court ruled that children born in the U.S. to non-citizen immigrants were indeed birthright citizens, Miller said.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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“Supplant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplant. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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