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Recent Examples of superseded
With the Selfish Gene, we’re programmed to do what’s best for ourselves and our own survival that’s only superseded by the survival of our children, right?
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 May 2026
As science communication evolved, the top-down one-way model was superseded by a two-way communication model that conceived of the public not as passive receivers but as active participants, the model of public engagement or conversation.
—Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2026
For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Edmonds previously sued OpenAI in Canadian court; that suit will be superseded by the complaint filed in federal district court in Northern California on Wednesday.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 May 2026
As science communication evolved, the top-down one-way model was superseded by a two-way communication model that conceived of the public not as passive receivers but as active participants, the model of public engagement or conversation.
—Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2026
For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Edmonds previously sued OpenAI in Canadian court; that suit will be superseded by the complaint filed in federal district court in Northern California on Wednesday.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superseded
replaced
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He was replaced by junior Ben Bianchi, a UCF commit, who, after giving up a home run to Ben Shields, got Carter Cox to go down swinging.—
Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
17 May 2026
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With one on and one out in the fifth inning and the Mets up by one, the Yankees replaced right-hander Jake Bird with left-hander Brent Headrick to face Soto, with Mark Vientos right behind him.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2026
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“Superseded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superseded. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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