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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

More recently, separatist-controlled eastern Libya has supplanted Chad as the main Emirati supply route towards Sudan, said Emadeddin Badi, a researcher at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

For us, Bluesky has supplanted X. But most people have not made that move, and because they haven’t, they may not be familiar with Bluesky’s favorite topic: Bluesky.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025

It has supplanted its straightforward commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as Cornell expressed it in 2020, with a steamy helping of corporate-speak mush.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

Nor was that the only evidence that the wild has supplanted the tame.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen