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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“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
Thus in two months from the disappearance of Thurstane his rival had begun to hope that he was supplanting him.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
