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supplantations

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plural of supplantation

as in replacements

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City have looked for replacements in the market and had considered Pedro Neto from Chelsea, but were put off by the price tag.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Since the dawn of the space age, spacecraft have been treated as disposable because salvaging them was too expensive—or too technically challenging—compared with the easier, cheaper task of launching fresh replacements.

— Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of replacements

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Officials were still working to confirm the number of displacements and said they would be assisted with housing by the American Red Cross, according to Partridge.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
As the cost of quantifying and automating information falls toward zero, such wins and displacements will multiply faster and farther than most institutions can adapt.

— Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of displacements

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Reference markers printed directly onto the silicone collar let a tiny onboard camera measure those deformations in real time.

— Omar Kardoudi April 23, New Atlas, 23 Apr. 2026
Most of the shifts and deformations gradually returned to normal by six months after return to Earth.

— Rachael Seidler, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2026

Definition of deformations

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That's about the legacy of slavery and the monuments commemorating the Confederacy and slave holders and the distortions of history.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
Once transmitted back to Earth, scientists will use Bayesian statistical methods alongside sky-response computer simulations to remove Galactic foreground emissions and instrument distortions.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026

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