superseded

past tense of supersede
as in replaced
to take the place of that edition of the dictionary that you have has been superseded by a more recent one

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Recent Examples of superseded But any such order might be superseded by the multi-state lawsuit. Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 9 July 2026 Ter Stegen's departure from Barcelona is due to his diminished role, having been superseded by Wojciech Szczesny and the impressive Joan Garcia, who secured both La Liga and the Zamora trophy. Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 Sources say Progressive superseded their sales goal, and doubled their investment, before the pic’s early July $125M+ domestic opening last year. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 June 2026 He will be superseded and replaced by somebody that's going to have the job permanently. Lauren Peller, ABC News, 11 June 2026 Lions Bays Search and Rescue led the initial search for McLean as a missing person, only to be superseded by the IHIT investigators active in RCMP regions in the province’s lower mainland. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026 As science communication evolved, the top-down one-way model was superseded by a two-way communication model that conceived of the public not as passive receivers but as active participants, the model of public engagement or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 Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026 But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.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Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2026 For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superseded
replaced
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  • He was replaced by Detroit Tigers catcher Dillion Dingler in the fourth inning.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • But as those pinelands were replaced with cities and neighborhoods, the bats largely disappeared.
    Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026

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“Superseded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superseded. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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