usurping
- present participle of usurp.
Example Sentences
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Usurping incumbent openers Abhishek Sharma, the top-ranked T20 batter in the world and Sanju Samson - India's match-winner in the semi-final and final of this year's World Cup - will be an almighty challenge.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Usurping some of the spotlight before Super Bowl XLIII, Nowinski flew with doctors from Boston University’s C.T.E.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022
If ought possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping Ivy, Brier, or idle Moss.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
Now on the stream the noonbeams look, Usurping, as thou downward driftest, Its crystal from the clearest brook, Its rushing current from the swiftest.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
Yet my throat moved to see him Usurping, with one hand on Raleigh's arm, A kind of ownership.
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred
