supplantation

noun

Definition of supplantationnext
as in replacement

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplantation
  1. replacement
  2. displacement
  3. substitution
  4. deformation
  5. distortion
  6. transmutation
  7. reformation
  8. revision
Noun
  • When certain items were unavailable the model chose suitable replacements based on its own knowledge about cooking.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Traditionally, vehicle owners took their cars and trucks to dealerships, garages and other providers of service for such things as oil changes, tire rotation, battery replacement, and work related to recalls.
    Bill Koenig, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of replacement
Noun
  • Those messages requested better public transportation, walkability, stormwater management, no displacement of residents among a host of suggestions.
    Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In a makeshift displacement camp near the sea in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, thousands of families battled high tides, heavy winds and rainfall that damaged their nylon and plastic tents.
    Abeer Salman, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of displacement
Noun
  • There are four outfielders and one goalkeeper, unlimited substitutions, no offside, and kick-ins with a four-second limit.
    Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There will be some substitutions made by American businesses and consumers to soften the blow.
    Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of substitution
Noun
  • Regardless of views on climate change and global warming, the world's glaciers are increasingly retreating despite seasonal fluctuations and independent of natural glacial movement caused by factors like internal deformation.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But in 2020, based on an analysis of the deformation of Africa’s crust, Daly and his colleagues suggested the Okavango rift connects to a rift in Namibia, on the Atlantic coast.
    ByPaul Voosen, science.org, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of deformation
Noun
  • Strong pay gains appear to be a holdout while other Covid-era distortions fade, Elyse Ausenbaugh, head of investment strategy at JPMorgan Wealth Management, wrote in commentary issued Friday.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • To be sure, this report, written under the guise of international law and human rights, is utterly baseless, replete with malicious lies and gross distortions of fact, as well as wholesale fabrications of law.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of distortion
Noun
  • Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
  • In any case, whether by accident or by design, the transmutation of a vulgar old Jewface number into a civic hymn is hard to resist as metaphor—an emblem of minstrelsy’s fugitive movement through American life.
    Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
Definition of transmutation
Noun
  • Whether that’s the debut of Jacob Fatu, the recent reformation of the OG Bloodline or Punk making a deal with Paul Heyman to help the babyface Bloodline at Survivor Series, the twists just keep on coming.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Ebenezer is a tough case, and Scrooge comes around by witnessing one moral lesson at a time, and the acting job is to show a kind of accelerating reformation as the spirits do their Christmas night thing.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of reformation
Noun
  • Now, the company’s acquisition of VMware, the massive opportunity in generative AI with its chips, as well as networking products, and strong profitability does warrant a meaningful upward revision in valuation multiple.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Then Gabriel reached the revision period, right at the end of his degree, and his sympathy abruptly flipped.
    Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of revision
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