supplant
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A trade journal for office supplies from the same year reported that the paper clip had supplanted the previously common pins in every modern office. | Un periódico industrial de suministros para oficinas del mismo año informó de que el clip para papel había sustituido a los comunes alfileres en todas las oficinas modernas. |
By the second half of the nineteenth century political morality had supplanted materialism (at least, in the imagination of certain politicians) only because social antagonisms had softened for a time and the political struggle had become petty. | En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, la moralidad política había suplantado al materialismo (al menos, en la imaginación de ciertos políticos), solo porque los antagonismos sociales se habían suavizado de momento, y la lucha política se había vuelto mezquina. |
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