Thesaurus results for DISPLANTS

displants

verb

present tense third-person singular of displant

as in replaces

to take the place of long ago displanted by the automobile, the horse and buggy have become icons of a slower, gentler time

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Furniture Mall replaces about 150,000-square feet in what was once a Macy’s store that closed in 2025.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
This discrepancy, per the report’s projection, will worsen in the 2026-27 school year when STUNT replaces equestrian as a varsity sport.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026

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State Attorney’s Office prosecutors originally charged Bradly Shawn Shadduck, 56, with second-degree murder, but the grand jury indictment supersedes that charge, and he is now being held without bond on premeditated murder.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
In that sense, this agreement supersedes previous efforts to tie Lebanon’s stability and sovereignty to external agendas.

— Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026

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