supplant
Americanverb
Synonym Usage
See replace.
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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supplantsimple
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supplantssimple
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have supplantedperfect
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has supplantedperfect
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am supplantingprogressive
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are supplantingprogressive
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is supplantingprogressive
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have been supplantingperfect progressive
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has been supplantingperfect progressive
Past
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supplantedsimple
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had supplantedperfect
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was supplantingprogressive
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were supplantingprogressive
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had been supplantingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of supplant
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English supplanten, from Latin supplantāre “to trip up, overthrow”; see sup-, plant
Explanation
Kate was out sick for a whole month, and when she came back to school, Jessie had supplanted her as the funny girl at the lunch table. Supplant means "to take the place of." Being supplanted is something that often happens to ideas or ways of thinking. Encouraging children's freedom has supplanted old ideas about children being better seen than heard. After a shocking upset at Wimbledon, a new tennis player has supplanted the reigning champion.
Vocabulary lists containing supplant
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After all, I’d never lay myself off, push any convoluted apps down my own throat, replace me with AI or let students use chatbots to supplant themselves.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
While artificial intelligence can help advisers operate more efficiently, there’s little indication that it can supplant experienced financial planners.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Big tech rivals have long tried to supplant Apple, but thus far Google, Samsung, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.com have all failed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
City leaders hope F&M Bank Amphitheater of Long Beach, located next to the famed Queen Mary, will supplant declining revenues from oil extraction and lead to an uptick in tourism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
In this way, Goddard’s voice began to supplant his own internal moderator.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
But those earnings could become more volatile if artificial intelligence supplants the sort of back-office systems that TCS provides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
This is a crucial piece to the puzzle, because production of one gigabyte of HBM supplants three gigabytes of other types of memory, worsening shortages down the line.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Their carbon footprint will further drop as renewable energy supplants electricity generated from fossil fuels in the years to come, she said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
The real intrigue may be whether Pickett officially supplants Rudolph by then, a point that might be moot if a team calls inquiring about Rudolph’s availability.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
"That means the alien organ exactly duplicates the neural circuits it supplants."
From Collectivum by Mike Lewis
The survey shows that fears about surging borrowing costs have even supplanted worries about the AI trade possibly turning into a bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Framed this way, mathematicians are not in a race against A.I.s, waiting for the dreaded Kasparov moment when we become supplanted.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Those nominations numbers continued the shift that has been taking place the last several years as Cannes has supplanted the fall film festivals as the event with the most sway at the Academy Awards.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
And after AI, some other transformative technology could emerge—just as AI has supplanted the enthusiasm over cloud computing, fracking, the internet and earlier breakthroughs that lifted the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
José Arcadio Segundo, who took a long time to discover that he had been supplanted, was unable to understand his brother's passion.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She challenged whether supplanting the charter is “in the best interest of the kids... To me, closing this school will have absolutely immediate, disastrous consequences.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
She wrote that considering legislative history “prevents the preferences of judges from supplanting the will of the people.”
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
For now, ideas are converging around a new human interface that will eventually replace the decades-old graphical approach and feature conversations with Siri supplanting mouse clicks and finger taps.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Compton was seized with a vision of Lawrence supplanting his own authority by the sheer exercise of will, abetted by geography.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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