displaces

His empathy for the child's fate is something Godwin displaces onto others, who, significantly, are women and children, the children being William's brother and friends.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

As Goldberg recently wrote, reflexive toughness too often displaces seichel, the Yiddish word for wisdom, among Israel's leaders.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

More importantly, once again, your comment merely "displaces" design to an earlier time.

Jesus Creed 2010

More importantly, once again, your comment merely "displaces" design to an earlier time.

Jesus Creed Jesus Creed Admin 2010

For several years the BWEA - which lobbies on behalf of wind power firms - claimed that electricity from wind turbines 'displaces' 860 grams of carbon dioxide emission for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated.

The Jawa Report 2009

However, the 10 states that have allowed undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition have "not experienced a large influx that 'displaces' native-born students or added financial burdens to their educational systems," says one study.

Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories 2009

It kind of displaces the trivial stuff going on in my mind. "

The Seattle Times 2010

It kind of displaces the trivial stuff going on in my mind. "

The Seattle Times 2010

And the harder you crack down on Internet movie-downloading, the more attractive you make buying pirate DVDs from criminals on the street -- a virtually zero-risk transaction that directly displaces DVD purchases.

Boing Boing 2009

Etc. And I agree that in certain circumstances, that variable can work in a way to make mass immigration of cheap labor be a good thing, in the long term, for the workers it displaces.

Matthew Yglesias » Immigration and Low-Wage Workers 2010