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In the fourth century, when the Roman Empire became Christianized as the Byzantine Empire, churches were built in Petra, some of them supplanting once-sacred tombs.
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Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 25 Feb. 2025
China is grappling with dangerously high youth unemployment, local governments carrying crushing debt loads, a private sector having difficulty supplanting state enterprises and households predisposed to saving as opposed to consuming.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Economists and tax policy experts previously told Newsweek that the disparity in tax- and trade-related revenues would prevent an External Revenue Service from fully supplanting the IRS, even with a drastic increase in tariffs imposed by the administration.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Early-season struggles followed, and eventually that led to his getting supplanted as the No. 2 by Aleksei Kolosov.
—Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 25 Feb. 2025
China is grappling with dangerously high youth unemployment, local governments carrying crushing debt loads, a private sector having difficulty supplanting state enterprises and households predisposed to saving as opposed to consuming.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Economists and tax policy experts previously told Newsweek that the disparity in tax- and trade-related revenues would prevent an External Revenue Service from fully supplanting the IRS, even with a drastic increase in tariffs imposed by the administration.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Early-season struggles followed, and eventually that led to his getting supplanted as the No. 2 by Aleksei Kolosov.
—Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for supplant
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“Supplant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplant. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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