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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    supplanting example sentences

    supplanting


    1. complicated machinery, supplanting the trained artisan


    2. Therefore, it causes more problems and endless sacrifices for population with intention of supplanting so many other generated damages for the collateral result of its palliative measure


    3. Supplanting his thoughts


    4. 5 "But let me warn you against the folly of undertaking to surmount temptation by the effort of supplanting one desire by another and supposedly superior desire through the mere force of the human will


    5. But arrogance was supplanting their former simplicity


    6. I don’t expect anything good from Stalin, whose paranoia is supplanting more and more his common sense


    7. He currently plots to draft the indomitable Ashuras into his service to enact a misguided scheme of supplanting the status quo with a hedonist utopia


    8. " It is on this score, that of supplanting


    9. what has gone before without supplanting it


    10. consul for life, supplanting his previous ten-year term

    11. Captain Bligh went even farther than supplanting meat with breadfruit


    12. The corrupt tool ethic of tool productivity supplanting human concerns has become the ethical norm for both producers and consumers


    13. Read about how almost every successor to the throne hated the one they were supplanting so badly… that they spent fortunes eradicating their names and faces off all of the temples and monuments erected in their honor


    14. “She was willing to concede that the supplanting was liable to abuse, but she was adamant that the suppression itself was entirely moral if the clinician thought it would be the most effective way to deal with the trauma and if the patient agreed after a thorough explanation of the procedure


    15. “What I’m thinking about right now, though, was that she pointed out that one reason for supplanting suppressed memories with manufactured ones was to prevent the patient from probing at a ‘blank spot’ in her recollections


    16. Such supplanting was to be


    17. In his head, the book kept growing and growing in length and complexity, almost as if it had taken on the burden of supplanting real life, rather than evoking it


    18. Consequently, in the course of many thousand generations, the most distinct varieties of any one species of grass would have the best chance of succeeding and of increasing in numbers, and thus of supplanting the less distinct varieties; and varieties, when rendered very distinct from each other, take the rank of species


    19. We have seen that species at any one period are not indefinitely variable, and are not linked together by a multitude of intermediate gradations, partly because the process of natural selection is always very slow, and at any one time acts only on a few forms; and partly because the very process of natural selection implies the continual supplanting and extinction of preceding and intermediate gradations


    20. When two varieties are formed in two districts of a continuous area, an intermediate variety will often be formed, fitted for an intermediate zone; but from reasons assigned, the intermediate variety will usually exist in lesser numbers than the two forms which it connects; consequently the two latter, during the course of further modification, from existing in greater numbers, will have a great advantage over the less numerous intermediate variety, and will thus generally succeed in supplanting and exterminating it

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    Synonyms for "supplanting"

    displacement supplanting

    "supplanting" definitions

    act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics