supplant
verb (used with object)
to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
is supplanting
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present progressiveof supplant (3rd person singular).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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There’s also some evidence that artificial intelligence is supplanting some jobs.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
The introduction of a new technology into society has a blowback effect on the ones it is supplanting, said Brian Ott, a professor of communication and media at Missouri State University.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
New research suggests chicken DNA is supplanting wild genomes of local red junglefowl.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2023
The hybrid is more cold tolerant, and is supplanting its parent species in some regions.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
When 'tis before your very eyes, how yonder smooth-tongued French impostor, after luring him back to his ruin beyond seas, is supplanting him even here, and your daughter giving herself over to the wily viper!'
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
