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take the place or move into the position of

She had never been supplanted.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion

She lay there until energy supplanted shock.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
What was surprising was the speed with which her relief that Robbie was alive was supplanted by her dread of confronting him.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
She would do what Mother did and supplant you with her own child.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
But when she came out, her hearty cheerfulness was supplanted by the strained blur of hysteria; she wept, laughed, brooded, loved, and hated by turns.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
The images in Jason's mind raced furiously across his eyes, clashing, supplanting one another.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
It would be very sorely strained if there was another woman likely to supplant her with him.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
To be supplanted by a park and the Wynand Building....
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Some injurious suspicion lodged itself in his brain, that she wanted to supplant Mrs Bangham, and that she was given to drinking.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
That is the single idea in my mind, the one that has supplanted the possibility of all other rational thought.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
Death supplants everything.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
He came and told you what your mother was up to—that she wanted him to supplant me; not being a commercial person.
Henry James -- The American
He was one of the gods who'd supplanted Athena as a war deity.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
A wild excitement and an uncontrollable restlessness supplanted his earlier fatigue.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
It was supplanted by the creole theory, that African American English is a descendant of English pidgins developed during the slave trade.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
Darker fears or better impulses supplanted the counsel of the voice in the great hall.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
All are supplanted sooner or later.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
As long as Lucy thought that his own smart friends were supplanting the Miss Alans, she had not minded.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
I would triumph over her, and supplant my rival.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Jose Arcadio Segundo, who took a long time to discover that he had been supplanted, was unable to understand his brother's passion.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

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