displace
verb (used with object)
to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
has been displacing
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present perfect progressiveof displace (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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L.A. officials are continuing to debate the future of both freeway expansions, and in recent years Caltrans has been displacing residents to widen State Road 71 through Pomona.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2021
Natural gas in the United States has been relatively plentiful and cheap and has been displacing coal and oil as a source of electric generation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
More recently electricity has been displacing steam not only on street railroads and suburban railroads, but also in many other industrial processes, as well as the lighting of buildings and streets.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
