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
Almost all its gasoline is imported, making gas expensive and scarce; in many parts of the countryside, bicycles and horse carts have supplanted cars.
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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
After all, Sanders supplanted Sean Lewis as offensive play-caller with Pencil Pat midway through 2023’s losing streak.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
Oslo led to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, a political leadership that has supplanted the PLO, and is now headquartered in the town of Ramallah, in the West Bank.
—Literary Hub
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
For example, where sedans once ruled the road, a great many of them have since been supplanted in favor of more-popular SUVs and crossovers.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Landau, once a critic who wrote the famous line about seeing the future of rock n roll in Springsteen, supplanted Springsteen’s original manager Mike Appel during the recording of Born to Run.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
China has supplanted the Soviet Union as the United States’ principal rival—a superpower that is both economically and technologically more formidable than the Soviets ever were.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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
After all, Sanders supplanted Sean Lewis as offensive play-caller with Pencil Pat midway through 2023’s losing streak.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
Oslo led to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, a political leadership that has supplanted the PLO, and is now headquartered in the town of Ramallah, in the West Bank.
—Literary Hub
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
For example, where sedans once ruled the road, a great many of them have since been supplanted in favor of more-popular SUVs and crossovers.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Landau, once a critic who wrote the famous line about seeing the future of rock n roll in Springsteen, supplanted Springsteen’s original manager Mike Appel during the recording of Born to Run.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
China has supplanted the Soviet Union as the United States’ principal rival—a superpower that is both economically and technologically more formidable than the Soviets ever were.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplanted
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The 18 runs plundered off one over was the most Jasprit Bumrah had ever conceded in Tests, leaving the bowler perplexed as he was replaced.—
Sam Dalling,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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When Topham left several weeks into the band’s practices, he was replaced by Clapton, who played with a bold, confident approach that won over London club attendees.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
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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Many classical software development methodologies have been partially superseded by the arrival of DevOps and (even more recently) platform engineering, but these task systems go a long way to describing workflow structures in software teams.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Supplanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplanted. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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