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
As streaming then supplanted sales and stars such as Swift hammered out their issues with Spotify, a new playbook was written.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
McDavid, who has supplanted Crosby as the league’s top player, re-committed to the Oilers on the eve of the season’s opening games — assuring that the future of hockey’s most famous active player, now entering his 21st season, becomes the hot-stove topic between now and the trade deadline.
—Rob Rossi, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
And then the follies of the ensuing play, which supplanted the earlier stand at the very same spot on the field as the most indelible and revealing snapshot of the game.
—Chris Ochsner, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
To Mabel Dodge, Van Vechten’s article, coupled with Stein’s ongoing silence, made clear that she had been supplanted.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
His Zen talk now masked his indecision, and he’d been supplanted by an unsettling, de-aged digital doppelgänger hellbent on a campaign of conquest and the Tron equivalent of ethnic cleansing.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
Almost all its gasoline is imported, making gas expensive and scarce; in many parts of the countryside, bicycles and horse carts have supplanted cars.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
That idea has more recently been supplanted by the concept of bidirectional assimilation, the theory that just as immigrants adapt to their new country, its institutions adapt to them.
—Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2025
But as much as the ratings monopoly has taken its share of knocks over the decades, it has never been supplanted as the anchor of the $70 billion-plus TV ad business.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
McDavid, who has supplanted Crosby as the league’s top player, re-committed to the Oilers on the eve of the season’s opening games — assuring that the future of hockey’s most famous active player, now entering his 21st season, becomes the hot-stove topic between now and the trade deadline.
—Rob Rossi, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
And then the follies of the ensuing play, which supplanted the earlier stand at the very same spot on the field as the most indelible and revealing snapshot of the game.
—Chris Ochsner, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
To Mabel Dodge, Van Vechten’s article, coupled with Stein’s ongoing silence, made clear that she had been supplanted.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
His Zen talk now masked his indecision, and he’d been supplanted by an unsettling, de-aged digital doppelgänger hellbent on a campaign of conquest and the Tron equivalent of ethnic cleansing.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
Almost all its gasoline is imported, making gas expensive and scarce; in many parts of the countryside, bicycles and horse carts have supplanted cars.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
That idea has more recently been supplanted by the concept of bidirectional assimilation, the theory that just as immigrants adapt to their new country, its institutions adapt to them.
—Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2025
But as much as the ratings monopoly has taken its share of knocks over the decades, it has never been supplanted as the anchor of the $70 billion-plus TV ad business.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplanted
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The incidence of peanut allergies declined 43%, meaning that eggs have now replaced peanuts as the most common childhood allergen.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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Plus, unlike many office workers, her job isn’t at risk of being replaced by AI.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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But Dodge’s position as Stein’s exclusive representative was shortly to be superseded.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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The Articles of Confederation underpinned the first governing system set up for the new United States but was only in effect for less than a decade before the Constitution superseded it.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Supplanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplanted. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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