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as in superseded
to take the place of
the old street lights were replaced by more energy-efficient models
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as in returned
to bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place
took the fragile vase down to look at it and then gently replaced it on the shelf
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Recent Examples of replaced
Saving the night sky is more an investment over time as light fixtures are updated, old lighting is replaced with LEDs and motion timers are installed.
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Cora, who was an infielder on the Red Sox 2007 World Series championship team and managed them to a franchise-record 108 wins and another title in ‘18, will be replaced on an interim basis by Chad Tracy.
—Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Technology has replaced the medium’s material substrate—once photochemical, now primarily electronic—and repeatedly modified its syntax, its narrative codes, its standards of realism.
—Dennis Lim, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
My mechanic already replaced the computer, distributor cap, rotor, spark plugs, and wires.
—Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Brian Daboll had been fired and Mike Kafka, the interim who replaced Daboll, was on his way out the door and there was still a feeling around here that Joe Schoen might follow him.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
Gabbard, at this point, appears to have been fully pushed aside and replaced by Ratcliffe as the president’s chief source of intelligence advice.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
Vince Galante replaced former head of Jeep design Mark Allen in 2023.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
At that point, they must be removed and replaced.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Cora, who was an infielder on the Red Sox 2007 World Series championship team and managed them to a franchise-record 108 wins and another title in ‘18, will be replaced on an interim basis by Chad Tracy.
—Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Technology has replaced the medium’s material substrate—once photochemical, now primarily electronic—and repeatedly modified its syntax, its narrative codes, its standards of realism.
—Dennis Lim, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
My mechanic already replaced the computer, distributor cap, rotor, spark plugs, and wires.
—Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Brian Daboll had been fired and Mike Kafka, the interim who replaced Daboll, was on his way out the door and there was still a feeling around here that Joe Schoen might follow him.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
Gabbard, at this point, appears to have been fully pushed aside and replaced by Ratcliffe as the president’s chief source of intelligence advice.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
Vince Galante replaced former head of Jeep design Mark Allen in 2023.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
At that point, they must be removed and replaced.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for replaced
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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
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What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?—
Matt von Hippel,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Apr. 2026
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Among other things, the lawsuit asserted that tens of thousands of absentee ballots already have been mailed to people and a substantial number have been filled out and returned.—
David A. Lieb,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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Some of the scrubs have been returned because customers found the material to be too thick for their liking.—
Lisa Gutierrez
May 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
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Duneland Superintendent Chip Pettit said power was restored at Liberty Elementary, Liberty Intermediate/Middle, Jackson and Brummitt elementaries Tuesday but the district’s bus barn remained without power.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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The lost time spent with his family can never be restored.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Replaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replaced. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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