supplant
verb (used with object)
to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
was supplanting
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past progressiveof supplant.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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Liquefied natural gas, not batteries, was supplanting diesel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I realized, at a certain point, that the younger generation was supplanting me. And that I was no longer young,” he says.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2019
He listened to the wisdom of five-time all-star Adrian Gonzalez, who helped even as Bellinger was supplanting him as the team’s starting first basemen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2017
The DJ mixtape was supplanting the compilation CD.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2015
Her son’s resistance to schoolwork was a mild disorder that many children go through, but his study of chess, an intellectual activity, was supplanting it.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
