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Recent Examples of superseded
Lions Bays Search and Rescue led the initial search for McLean as a missing person, only to be superseded by the IHIT investigators active in RCMP regions in the province’s lower mainland.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
With the Selfish Gene, we’re programmed to do what’s best for ourselves and our own survival that’s only superseded by the survival of our children, right?
—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As science communication evolved, the top-down one-way model was superseded by a two-way communication model that conceived of the public not as passive receivers but as active participants, the model of public engagement or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But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.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For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot.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Those charges were superseded in August 2024, when the prosecutors filed the murder charge against him in connection with Windham’s death.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Edmonds previously sued OpenAI in Canadian court; that suit will be superseded by the complaint filed in federal district court in Northern California on Wednesday.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Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.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
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
With the Selfish Gene, we’re programmed to do what’s best for ourselves and our own survival that’s only superseded by the survival of our children, right?
—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As science communication evolved, the top-down one-way model was superseded by a two-way communication model that conceived of the public not as passive receivers but as active participants, the model of public engagement or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But all of this can be superseded by the pot the plant is in.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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superseded
replaced
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Instead of carpet—which will need to be replaced frequently—consider installing hardwood, laminate, or vinyl flooring in your kitchen.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 June 2026
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The idea is that a lawyer’s invoice, previously used to measure the value of the final output, may be replaced by a few cents of AI spending even though the output is the same.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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“Superseded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superseded. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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