supplant

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• The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
• RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
• Should "landlordism" in Ireland be supplanted by home rule? Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
• Oil has supplanted coffee as our main export.
• Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170). Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
• Perhaps that will inspire some radically new approaches to speech understanding that will supplant the methods we're developing now.
• This system was supplanted in 1963 by more modern recording technology that used a magnetic drum. Times, Sunday Times
• As the twentieth century wore on, railroads and mail-order catalogs supplanted the country stores.
• It is entirely to be ascribed to the supplanting, _in the national subsistence, of a large part of home produce by an equally large part of foreign produce_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
• Stare Decisis has some positive features, like providing for constant interpretions of law across different cases, but also negative ones, like allowing a body of judge-made rules to supplant the original constitution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legislating Miranda Rights for Terrorism Cases?