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Recent Examples of superseded
Some may be delayed by access barriers, modified by physician judgment or superseded by changing patient circumstances.
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Abhishek Kumar,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Sources say Progressive superseded their sales goal, and doubled their investment, before the pic’s early July $125M+ domestic opening last year.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
He will be superseded and replaced by somebody that's going to have the job permanently.
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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Lions Bays Search and Rescue led the initial search for McLean as a missing person, only to be superseded by the IHIT investigators active in RCMP regions in the province’s lower mainland.
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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As science communication evolved, the top-down one-way model was superseded by a two-way communication model that conceived of the public not as passive receivers but as active participants, the model of public engagement or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.
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Prodromos Yannas,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 May 2026
But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.
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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For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.
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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Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.
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Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Abhishek Kumar,
Forbes.com,
23 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Sources say Progressive superseded their sales goal, and doubled their investment, before the pic’s early July $125M+ domestic opening last year.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He will be superseded and replaced by somebody that's going to have the job permanently.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Lions Bays Search and Rescue led the initial search for McLean as a missing person, only to be superseded by the IHIT investigators active in RCMP regions in the province’s lower mainland.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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superseded
replaced
Verb
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Wade is the first free-agent addition to the Sixers since Mike Gansey replaced Daryl Morey as the team's new president of basketball operations.
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Non-Chinese managers were fired shortly after they had been hired and were replaced with Chinese managers, according to the complaint filed in a federal court in Los Angeles.
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“Superseded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superseded. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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