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Recent Examples of superseded
For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.
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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Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.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Edmonds previously sued OpenAI in Canadian court; that suit will be superseded by the complaint filed in federal district court in Northern California on Wednesday.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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.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What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?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
Our actual political landscape, in which government officials are adding journalists to top-secret group chats or running around in wrong-sized shoes as a form of flattery, has too far superseded anything even the most cutting jokester could ever have dreamed up.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
While never officially revoked, the armistice was, in practice, superseded by a borders shift during the Six Day War in 1967.
—Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Indeed, concerns about the impact that the oil price spike will have on growth superseded the worries about consumer prices, echoing Powell’s worry that hiking now won’t fix energy costs and could cause more trouble later.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
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Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.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Edmonds previously sued OpenAI in Canadian court; that suit will be superseded by the complaint filed in federal district court in Northern California on Wednesday.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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.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
Our actual political landscape, in which government officials are adding journalists to top-secret group chats or running around in wrong-sized shoes as a form of flattery, has too far superseded anything even the most cutting jokester could ever have dreamed up.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
While never officially revoked, the armistice was, in practice, superseded by a borders shift during the Six Day War in 1967.
—Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Indeed, concerns about the impact that the oil price spike will have on growth superseded the worries about consumer prices, echoing Powell’s worry that hiking now won’t fix energy costs and could cause more trouble later.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superseded
replaced
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How to manage a susceptible, intolerant rose Roses that are both susceptible and intolerant to disease despite proper care should be shovel-pruned and replaced with cultivars that thrive with little or no disease.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Working with Boss Architecture, the Feins replaced the wiring and electrical, raised the ceiling height 6 inches, and added 600 square feet to the rear of the house.—
Sara B. Hansen,
Denver Post,
2 May 2026
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“Superseded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superseded. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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