supersede
verb (used with object)
to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
was superseding
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past progressiveof supersede.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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 Henry Jones Ford
The new commander-in-chief, like those whom he was superseding, was under precise orders from the home government to be guided by M. de Saligny.
From Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson
