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
Musk seemed to be Twitter’s biggest shareholder until investment giant Vanguard Group filed a report late last week showing it had supplanted him.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
Pope, who helped arrange his funeral, said poetry had supplanted the piano as Ibn Ali’s main mode of expression there.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
She told him how the strange animal had supplanted her and how nobody had been prepared to listen to her explanation at the beginning.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
