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Recent Examples of superseded
But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.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For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.
—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Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.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Edmonds previously sued OpenAI in Canadian court; that suit will be superseded by the complaint filed in federal district court in Northern California on Wednesday.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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.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What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?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adding journalists to top-secret group chats or running around in wrong-sized shoes as a form of flattery, has too far superseded anything even the most cutting jokester could ever have dreamed up.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While never officially revoked, the armistice was, in practice, superseded by a borders shift during the Six Day War in 1967.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
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For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.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Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.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Edmonds previously sued OpenAI in Canadian court; that suit will be superseded by the complaint filed in federal district court in Northern California on Wednesday.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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superseded
replaced
Verb
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He was replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood after Wedgewood surrendered three goals on a dozen shots.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
10 May 2026
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Lukáš Dostál stopped just five of eight shots before being replaced after the first intermission.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
9 May 2026
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“Superseded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superseded. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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