as in replaced
to take the place of
long ago displanted by the automobile, the horse and buggy have become icons of a slower, gentler time
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How to manage a susceptible, intolerant rose Roses that are both susceptible and intolerant to disease despite proper care should be shovel-pruned and replaced with cultivars that thrive with little or no disease.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026 -
Working with Boss Architecture, the Feins replaced the wiring and electrical, raised the ceiling height 6 inches, and added 600 square feet to the rear of the house.—
Sara B. Hansen,
Denver Post,
2 May 2026
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For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
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Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Displanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/displanted. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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