was superseding
- past progressive of supersede.
Example Sentences
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With his own investments in western land, he was superseding the Ohio Company that he’d served as strapping errand boy.
From Salon ● May 28, 2017
“It was an indication that football was superseding academics,” she explained.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2012
For the first time, the host country was superseding the supranational IOC.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Washington's time Wall Street was superseding Pearl Street as the principal haunt of fashion.
From Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Ford, Henry Jones
Duchâtel, who is a better politician than Guizot, was superseding him in the confidence of the King and of the Chamber.
From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Tocqueville, Alexis de
