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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He was replaced by junior Ben Bianchi, a UCF commit, who, after giving up a home run to Ben Shields, got Carter Cox to go down swinging.—
Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
17 May 2026 -
With one on and one out in the fifth inning and the Mets up by one, the Yankees replaced right-hander Jake Bird with left-hander Brent Headrick to face Soto, with Mark Vientos right behind him.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2026
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But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.—
Erica Browne Grivas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 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For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.—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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“Displanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/displanted. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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