supplant
verb (used with object)
to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
are supplanting
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present progressiveof supplant.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"What you are supplanting is important, and for many subjects, you also have to time it precisely."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Tik-Tok, YouTube and gaming are supplanting television in occupying people who are simply looking to fill some time.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
In some cases, people are supplanting purchases of goods with splurges on travel and experiences.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
“They are supplanting her decision about what she should do with her pregnancy,” Amiri said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2017
Our reapers and threshers are supplanting, in Eastern Europe, the ridiculous flails, sickles and straight-handled scythes that figured at New York in 1853.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
