take the place of (someone or something)

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: to replace (someone or something)

Who will take the place of the current pope?

Televisions began to take the place of radios in most families' homes.

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Escobedo’s new Tang Wing will take the place of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, designed by Kevin Roche and completed — sort of — in 1987. —

Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024 Richards will take the place of Stewart on Wednesday. —

Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 30 July 2024 International intervention cannot take the place of domestic initiatives, however. —

Abraham F. Lowenthal, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015 The loss of the original trees is there in me, but here were their babies, ready to take the place of their missing parents. —

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