as in replaced
to take the place of
old traditions that were fading away and being supplanted by modern ways
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Recent Examples of supplanted
The company has said its $110 billion deal to acquire WBD, which supplanted a prior deal Netflix had to acquire the studio-and-streaming business of WBD, will close by the end of September.
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 May 2026
Riley Leonard, a 2025 sixth-round pick, has since supplanted Richardson as Indy’s QB2.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
What can your art do that isn’t totally supplanted by this other technology?
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Leclerc started the 2024 season as closer, too, but was supplanted by right-hander Kirby Yates by the middle of the season’s first month.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
Yes, one Evil Empire has supplanted another.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
And yet, before last summer had even ended, the intrepid adventurism that brought the nation’s first big wave of tourism was supplanted with grousing and gripes.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
Community interdependence and the common good have been supplanted by for-profit services, leaving many people feeling isolated and ignored.
—Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 May 2026
Riley Leonard, a 2025 sixth-round pick, has since supplanted Richardson as Indy’s QB2.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
What can your art do that isn’t totally supplanted by this other technology?
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Leclerc started the 2024 season as closer, too, but was supplanted by right-hander Kirby Yates by the middle of the season’s first month.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
Yes, one Evil Empire has supplanted another.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
And yet, before last summer had even ended, the intrepid adventurism that brought the nation’s first big wave of tourism was supplanted with grousing and gripes.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
Community interdependence and the common good have been supplanted by for-profit services, leaving many people feeling isolated and ignored.
—Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplanted
Verb
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He was replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood after Wedgewood surrendered three goals on a dozen shots.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
10 May 2026
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Lukáš Dostál stopped just five of eight shots before being replaced after the first intermission.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
9 May 2026
Verb
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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
Cite this Entry
“Supplanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplanted. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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