Word: supplanting
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Unfortunately, sturdier data must supplant this episode from Moe's fanciful History of Harvard. Veritas was one of several religious mottoes suggested in the early years of the College. At that time a spiritual team, Veritas was translated as "divine truth," the meaning Dante had given...
...Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality it has seldom had before. Amid the rhinestone glitter of Roman Holiday's make-believe, Paramount's new star sparkles and glows with the fire of a finely cut diamond. Impertinence, hauteur, sudden repentance, happiness, rebellion and fatigue supplant each other with lightning speed on her mobile, adolescent face...
Niebuhr attacks the frequent clerical fallacy that under socialism "motives of service" would supplant the "profit motive." That idea "invested a collectivist system with a moral sanction it did not deserve . . . The so-called 'profit motive' can hardly be eliminated under any system . . . Every parson who speaks grandly about supplanting [it] exemplifies it when he moves to a new charge because the old one did not give him ... a salary adequate for his growing family...
...also feel that the difficulties in presenting varied, flexible tutorial are surmountable. The other four large departments are conducting tutorial sessions which center in the Houses, which allow members a broad range of study, and which supplement, rather than supplant regular course work. Furthermore, a turn to flexibility and additional freedom of study would not require overloading the student with reams of reading material. Careful examination of severe poems can be of more benefit than quickly skimming a hundred pages...
Social welfare: "Government, through its public assistance and social welfare programs, should seek to enhance but not to supplant the duty of the individual and of the family to provide for their own health and welfare...