Thesaurus results for SUPPLANTATION

supplantation

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Definition of supplantation

as in replacement

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Noun

The airline representative added that passengers were transferred to a replacement aircraft to continue the trip.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026
Recovered messages showed that after a plan to kidnap Moïse failed, the group began souring on Sanon and chose a new replacement for the Haitian president, Superior Court Justice Windelle Coq Thélot.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of replacement

Noun

In his view, the usual AI jobs narrative of displacement is incomplete, with the data center counter-story as one example.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Other autonomous agencies, civil society groups and Mexican state governments have published data on internal displacement, but their findings often have been limited in scope.

— Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of displacement

Noun

Dos Santos has incurred LAFC fans' ire for his static tactics and substitution plans, and his club has been booed at home by its normally supportive base.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Lee and Chhatwal also noted the substitution of alcohol for other substances, like cannabis, could be the reason for the downward trend of drinking for a younger generation.

— Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of substitution

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Under a load of 20 tons in addition to its own weight, the platform showed minimal deformation and vibration in relation to its span.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026
Topologists are therefore interested in how the n-dimensional Poincaré conjecture turns out when only diffeomorphic deformations are permitted.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of deformation

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Spyglass Media said her posts crossed into antisemitism and hate speech, citing what the company characterized as false references to genocide, Holocaust distortion and an implication that Western media conceal Israel’s perspective.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
These are two examples of politicians' truths among a plethora of others that are really lies, distortions, deceptions and desecrations of the citizens' trust in them.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of distortion

Noun

Hers is an art of transmutation, but one that never shies from showing you the pain it’s made from, at once hopeful and unflinching.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
In the act of telling, there is the potential for transmutation, the often (but not always) false promise of healing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026

Definition of transmutation

Noun

But this begs the parallel question of what the current museum architecture arises from and reflects, and why the oceanic and the oligarchic logics of the museum’s reformation now travel together here.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Years after his dad’s reformation, Jonah sits on a bench at the Broncos’ practice facility in Dove Valley, gazing out at the green expanse of his future.

— Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 June 2026

Definition of reformation

Noun

Successful tools will likely treat verification and revision as essential features instead of secondary considerations.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
Analysis revealed the work to be by Velázquez and, interestingly, showed that the artist made a number of revisions to the nobleman’s dress and armor.

— News Desk, Artforum, 24 Sep. 2026

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