- present participle of supplant.
supplanting
Example Sentences
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Artisanal butter has become Paris’s must-have status souvenir, supplanting Ladurée macarons and drugstore skin care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
She challenged whether supplanting the charter is “in the best interest of the kids... To me, closing this school will have absolutely immediate, disastrous consequences.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
She wrote that considering legislative history “prevents the preferences of judges from supplanting the will of the people.”
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
