supersede

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supplant | American Dictionary

supplant
verb[ T ]
us/səˈplænt/
to take the place of (something or someone):
Travel videos do not supplant guidebooks, but they can be useful when planning a trip.

Examples of supplant

supplant
But, as the population burgeoned in recent decades, traditional economies faltered and were supplanted by agricultural production reliant on few species.
The paper concludes with brief review of three leading explanations of why neoclassicism seems to have been supplanted by a new mainstream pluralism.
By the late nineteenth century, the role of church groups in founding and maintaining such institutions had largely been supplanted by the state.
The first originated in the 1850s and involved attempts to supplant existing verbal agreements made at the hirings with written 'characters' administered through registration societies.
These old circuits were neither eliminated nor supplanted, but still play a role at some level of the language processes.
The real is evinced by the absence of the real - in this case by the cyborg woman's replaced and supplanted limbs and organs.
Descartes intends the big-picture theodicy to supplement, rather than supplant, the free-will theodicy.
It often happens that a textbook off the shelf quickly supplants a sketchy syllabus which may have taken much effort to produce.
As a result, behaviorism supplanted psychoanalysis as the dominant clinical paradigm of the time.
The spoken input is used to supplant the need for a general purpose object recognition module in the system.
The fact is that by mid-century, the charismatic hero-expert was already being supplanted by a decidedly different breed of the civil servant.
Indeed, distinct paradigms can coexist, and it might be argued that none of the paradigms has been entirely supplanted.
Does it supplant other forms of activity and knowledge?
The prediction that long-necks would supplant short-necks cannot be made with certainty.
Comtean positivism popularized this distinction between science and philosophy, but it also viewed science as having supplanted philosophy.
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