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Free sign upThe phrase "are designed to replace" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing products, systems, or processes that have been created with the intention of substituting something else.
Example: "The new software tools are designed to replace outdated methods of data entry, improving efficiency and accuracy."
Alternatives: "are intended to substitute" or "are meant to take the place of".
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Other buildings are designed to replace obsolete facilities in engineering, applied physics, and biology.
Terms such as these are designed to replace mental images of death and mutilation with images of something else.
These include the Education Action Zones (EAZs) and the vaunted City Academies, which are designed to replace failing schools altogether.
Retinal implants are designed to replace the function of damaged light-sensing photoreceptor cells in the retina.
Protoadditive functors are designed to replace additive functors in a non-abelian setting.
The consortiums are designed to replace regional news on ITV, which the broadcaster has said it can no longer afford to produce.
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ColoradoCare would be designed to replace private health insurance.
UG is designed to replace OMB Circular A-21.
It was as if a scalpel had been designed to replace a hunting knife.
Both were true of the first Boeing 747, which the A380 has been designed to replace.
The traditional incandescent bulbs that CFLs were designed to replace emit a miserly 14 or so.
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