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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Vince Galante replaced former head of Jeep design Mark Allen in 2023.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026 -
After the first sunny spring day, Parisians have officially packed up their winter wardrobe and replaced knits and boots with breezy trench coats and elegant ballerina flats—a look the French are perhaps most famous for.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Apr. 2026
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Our actual political landscape, in which government officials are adding journalists to top-secret group chats or running around in wrong-sized shoes as a form of flattery, has too far superseded anything even the most cutting jokester could ever have dreamed up.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
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While never officially revoked, the armistice was, in practice, superseded by a borders shift during the Six Day War in 1967.—
Mireille Rebeiz,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Displanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/displanted. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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