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Six example sentences with supplant, each labelled with its topic.
Solid state drives supplanted the spinning disk in laptops within about six years, and nobody misses the noise.
Technology
Container shipping supplanted the break-bulk docks so completely that whole waterfronts became apartments within a single generation.
Economics
Acrylics never quite supplanted oils, though a generation of students learned to paint without ever cleaning a brush in turpentine.
Art
The rookie supplanted the veteran at point guard by February, and the veteran's minutes never came back.
Basketball
Streaming supplanted the CD so quickly that the record shops on the high street closed within a few years.
Music
The younger deputy supplanted the party leader after one bad election, and the old guard retired within a year.
Politics
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