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America had become an English-speaking colony, settled by emigrants from the Old Country who had largely supplanted its aboriginal population.
Jet engines have supplanted piston engines in commercial aircraft due to more power, greater speed, and better all-around performance.
But the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine soon supplanted the steam engine in automotive technology.
I read recently in this newspaper that kissing has now supplanted the handshake as the greeting of choice among male friends.
The local silver thatch palm, traditionally used for roofing, was supplanted by corrugated tin.
The city of real buildings is being supplanted by a city of stalls and kiosks, a city made entirely of accretions.
It was abandoned and scrapped in 1918, after mining decreased and electric motors supplanted steam boilers at the mill.
The five-course guitar supplanted the aristocratic vihuela in the 17th century and came to be regarded as the typical Spanish instrument.
A multipolar racial pattern has largely supplanted the old racial system, which was often viewed as a bipolar white-black hierarchy.
He spoke musingly, his anger supplanted for the moment by unfeigned pleasure.
It was these anatomically modern humans which joined or supplanted the Neanderthals in Europe some 40,000 years ago.
But this, in turn, is supplanted by the increasingly theoretical, increasingly subdivided abstraction for which she later became known in Paris.
As with military strategy, rightness or wrongness is supplanted by possibility.
These Romance languages supplanted earlier tribal ones which, except for Basque, have not survived.
Alternative Armageddons supplanted the mushroom cloud and the nuclear winter.
The traditional cheese and Marmite rusks have been well and truly supplanted.
As the twentieth century wore on, railroads and mail-order catalogs supplanted the country stores.
Early Umayyad caliphs and some of the Abbasids who supplanted them employed the title khalifat Allah.
The discovery that directly supplanted gunpowder for use in firearms was guncotton, a forerunner of smokeless powder.
It took over a hundred years before Newton's ideas thoroughly supplanted the theory of Cartesian vortices.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The truth was that the husband had been killed and supplanted by the horse.
Linearity is effectively supplanted by non-linear descriptions of the many interlocking factors at work.
Khomeini came to power on the crest of a wave of unprecedented popular support and he supplanted a cruel and corrupt dictator.
Fuel oil can be largely supplanted by coal, but for the internal-combustion engine there is no quantitative substitute.
The French lapin, which has supplanted the old word conin, is said to be formed from lepinus, an adjective of lepus.
The chief reason why debt was supplanted for centuries by a later remedy, assumpsit, was the survival of this relic of early days.
He had already begun to tattle, out of jealousy for another man who had supplanted him in her good graces.
Pietism and sentimentalism have supplanted in a large measure the ethical.
In Oryx and Crake, Canadian author Margaret Atwood imagined a dystopian future where genetic technology supplanted human civilization.
The geometric figures were largely supplanted by foliate forms.
For the latter purpose it was subsequently supplanted by the chatelaine.
A few scraggly, yellow-white locks had supplanted the thick, dark hair that had covered his head.
It was the first seat of gasconade County, but was supplanted by Hermann.
This title has almost supplanted the more ancient one of jarvey.
He had supplanted the captain whose captaincy he afterwards held.
A tan-yard hand who played the violin by ear had supplanted lin.
The express and the wireless have supplanted the oxcart and the courier.
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