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supplantation

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Definition of supplantation

as in replacement

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If the claim is approved, the company pays toward the repair or replacement up to the plan’s coverage limit.

— Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
An examination of half of the building’s 278 panels reportedly revealed that 46 had severe structural corrosion and 93 had mild-to-moderate corrosion; one third of them requires immediate replacement.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of replacement

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The outbreak is spreading under extremely difficult conditions, fueled by insecurity, displacement, a health workers' strike and intense population movements.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
The outbreak is spreading under extremely difficult conditions, including war, insecurity, displacement, a health workers’ strike and intense population movements.

— Constant Same Bagalwa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of displacement

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That could still be possible even if White does not play at Portman Road tomorrow night, but his early substitution at the Stadium of Light felt a bit too familiar.

— Art de Roché, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Because only human labor is taxed, the scale is tipped toward substitution.

— Nadine Hack, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of substitution

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Designed as a water-free alternative to costly water-spraying setups, this technology mitigates high track temperatures caused by extreme heat waves, reducing deformation risks and speed delays.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
The condition may have caused pain and produced a deformation or swelling on her chest.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of deformation

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Propeller airflow creates a storm of noise, air distortion, and drift.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
This applies most where a tool’s confidence in a candidate runs unusually high or low, since that is where distortion is most likely to hide.

— Houman Akhavan, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of distortion

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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

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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

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The way voters elect highway district commissioners is set to change this November — and the Ada County Highway District said it was blindsided by the timing of the revision.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2026
One of those revisions earned John Nash of Princeton University and two others the Noble economics prize.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

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