How to Use supplant in a Sentence

supplant

verb
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  • And the very abundance of options works against any one of them supplanting X in the near term.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • As the two frontrunners plod along, there's been a lot of action trying to supplant them.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Bliss said the intent for his videos was never to supplant a lecture or even be used in a classroom.
    — Sherry Liang, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The longer the war lasts, the more Putin will look for opportunities to undermine and supplant the West.
    — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2023
  • How does McLaren catch up to Red Bull and supplant them as champions next season?
    — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Threads’ explosive launch seemed to set it up to supplant Twitter’s reign.
    — WIRED, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In theory, all eight of the people on stage shared a common goal of supplanting Trump.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The musical is unlikely to supplant anyone’s love for the film.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The project will supplant the 11-year-old Michigan Left turn that many drivers found confusing.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The billionaire seems to want Twitter to supplant cable news as CNN struggles.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • If passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor, the measure would supplant Newsom’s plan.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Instead, Georgia could be able to draw away enough votes to supplant the Tide atop the poll just two games into the regular season.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • There is next to no chance Thompson will supplant Holiday from the rotation.
    — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
  • After Viserys’s death, at the end of Episode 8, Rhaenyra is driven to defend her claim to the throne while Alicent, with the help of her father, attempts to supplant her.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Pale green might even supplant the ubiquitous forest green kitchen, as shown in Samsung’s fair booth.
    — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2022
  • The new-look starting lineup in which Dario Saric supplanted Kevon Looney at center.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2023
  • In recent decades, as the region’s opium production dropped, methamphetamine in the form of tablets and crystal meth has supplanted it.
    — Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Yeah, the guy who might solidify the Yankees' shortstop position for the first time since Jeter grew up hoping to supplant him.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The Nintendo Switch is poised to soon supplant the Nintendo Wii as the video game maker's all-time best-selling console.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The technique promises to give patients a permanent working copy of a gene to supplant their broken or missing copy.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • DeSantis signed the law , which supplanted a law DeSantis signed last year allowing abortions up to 15 weeks, in the dead of night on April 13.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • Police aren’t supposed to use that money to supplant their budgets, anyway.
    — Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Men in suits have been supplanted by nannies pushing strollers into the Wall Street–adjacent Whole Foods.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Krieg was benched in that game and replaced by Jim Zorn, whom Krieg himself had supplanted during the regular season.
    — Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the far right in quite a few European countries has co-opted or supplanted the center right that once held sway.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • It was supplanted by the neoliberal movement that favored the 1%.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Each side eyed the other suspiciously, but neither was able to supplant the other.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • On the other, many users may lose interest — and Bluesky may lose its window to supplant the competition.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • From the start, all eyes were on Sengun as he isn't expected to supplant Theis as a regular starter until at least later in the season.
    — Rahat Huq, Chron, 16 Oct. 2021
  • In 2019, Solnit pulled off a rare tour of one of the rose factories that were supposed to supplant coca production in Bogotá, Colombia.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021

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