supplant
verb (used with object)
to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
were 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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The objects date from the end of a warm interglacial period 300,000 years ago, about when early Neanderthals were supplanting Homo heidelbergensis, their immediate predecessors in Europe.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2024
Produced by Coachella promoter Goldenvoice, Cruel World time-travels back to that moment when synthesizers were supplanting guitars and rebel teens born into baby boomer hegemony were hungrily seeking new sounds, ideas and hairdos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2022
Produced by Coachella promoter Goldenvoice, Cruel World time-travels back to that moment when synthesizers were supplanting guitars and rebel teens born into Baby Boomer hegemony and nostalgia were hungrily seeking new sounds and ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
The more aggressive, nonnative brown and rainbow trout were supplanting or hybridizing the cutthroats, so Lang set out to find residual populations of genetically pure westslope cutthroats--Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most generally accepted view is that Manlius had written to let Catullus know that several fashionable rivals were supplanting him in his absence.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
