Example Sentences

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“I realized, at a certain point, that the younger generation was supplanting me. And that I was no longer young,” he says.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2019

He listened to the wisdom of five-time all-star Adrian Gonzalez, who helped even as Bellinger was supplanting him as the team’s starting first basemen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2017

The DJ mixtape was supplanting the compilation CD.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2015

Her son’s resistance to schoolwork was a mild disorder that many children go through, but his study of chess, an intellectual activity, was supplanting it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Thus, democracy was supplanting monarchy, Protestantism Catholicism, modern science scholasticism, etc.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.