displant

Definition of displantnext
as in to replace
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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  • Sometimes the batteries on the trackers would run low, and McGovern’s team would need to remove and recharge the devices, before surreptitiously replacing them.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The chaotic noise of Main Street traffic dissolves into the walls of this former bank vault, replaced by high-fidelity global sounds.
    Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
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  • Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Industry associations frame the career as one with enviable job security, given the ever-increasing need for nurses that supersedes economic downturns.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Displant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/displant. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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