displaced

Examples of displacing

displacing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Given sufficient processing time, would the postverbal noun be successful in displacing the filler as theme, regardless of its plausibility?
Once the exclusive domain of women, childbirth practices are now dominated by a largely male obstetric workforce, displacing the traditionally female dominated practice of midwifery.
Consider the steady movement of a fluid meniscus displacing air or its own vapour in a circular capillary.
The foreign locus of decisionmaking also creates opportunities for displacing or at least sharing blame when politically unpopular decisions are taken.
It was a trial at which spectators jostled for seats, displacing family members from a privileged row behind the accused woman.
Others were dispersed, pushed southward, displacing yet others in their turn.
This later tableau of cultivated leisure has the calculated effect of displacing the sovereign observer from the scene he surveys.
Coherent and incoherent motion processing displacing the single dots in randomly chosen directions at different speeds.
At the same time, industrial machinery was displacing many skilled workers and artisans, cigar rollers and tinsmiths, for example.
This is particularly so in regions with dense and fast-growing human populations, where expanding settlements, crops and livestock are displacing wildlife at an ever-increasing rate.
In the seventeenth century ' modes of urbanity ' spread into the countryside, displacing older rituals of hospitality even among rustic gentry.
It does this either by floating free of the given world or by displacing the apparent objects to which it pays attention.
Typically, intrapericardial teratomas are located anteriorly and to the right of the heart and great vessels, often displacing the heart leftward and posterior.
The industry's response was to modify both advertising and product design in a way that attempted to temper health concerns without displacing actual demand.
The deflection of the light was simulated by displacing the beam stop away from the laser focal spot, perpendicular to the laser direction.
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