displace
verb (used with object)
to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
had displaced
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past perfectof displace.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Aleppo governor Azzam al-Gharib said on Saturday that the ongoing clashes in the northern Syrian city's Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods had displaced around 155,000 people.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
Shortly after becoming attorney general, Harris joined negotiations between various state attorneys general and large mortgage institutions over improper foreclosure practices during the housing market collapse, which had displaced families across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
Twenty years ago, in this same part of the Philippines, communist insurgents took up arms against an earlier generation of power plants that had displaced them.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
By 2019, Modelo Especial had displaced Miller Lite as the top beer in Chicago, a sign of things to come.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2023
Anger had displaced timidity, and he was going to play shifgrethor with me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
