Example Sentences

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Even after the frothy bubble popped in the early 2000s, digital job boards had supplanted the centuries-old classified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

By the 1980s, when more modern methods of summoning help had supplanted its usefulness, the tower remained as a beacon for bored teenagers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

Musk seemed to be Twitter’s biggest shareholder until investment giant Vanguard Group filed a report late last week showing it had supplanted him.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2022

By this point, Candy had supplanted Molly Ringwald as Hughes’s muse and had made Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck with him.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2021

Soon other traders began to call Mollie’s father Jimmy, and before long it had supplanted his Osage name.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann