supplant
verb (used with object)
to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
had supplanted
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past perfectof supplant.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Even after the frothy bubble popped in the early 2000s, digital job boards had supplanted the centuries-old classified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
By the 1980s, when more modern methods of summoning help had supplanted its usefulness, the tower remained as a beacon for bored teenagers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
The Chiefs took a flier on running back Isiah Pacheco in the seventh round, and by the midpoint of the season, he had supplanted injury-prone former first-round pick Clyde Edwards-Helaire atop the depth chart.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
By this point, Candy had supplanted Molly Ringwald as Hughes’s muse and had made Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck with him.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2021
Once theirs had been a powerful guild, but in recent centuries the maesters of the Citadel had supplanted the alchemists almost everywhere.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
