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Recent Examples of supersedes
Modifications to gravity, which add additional parameters but have failed to create a consistent picture that supersedes general relativity.
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
In his book-length study, Transcendental Style in Film, Paul Schrader argues that for a film in the transcendental style, form supersedes content.
—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
The moral obligation to protect American lives ultimately supersedes diplomatic niceties about sovereignty, particularly when that sovereignty exists more in theory than in practice.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Republicans are fighting the laws in court, while also pushing for a federal law that supersedes the protection.
—The Hill, 9 Aug. 2025
That, noted city planning director David Snow, is the problem with yet another controversial new housing-development measure, the state’s Live Local law, which supersedes local height and density controls in the name of promoting construction of middle-class workforce housing.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
In a true meritocracy, where merit supersedes all else, the H-1B visa program shouldn’t be done by lottery or capped at a quota.
—Doug Melville, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These Who’d have expected that just a year after winning the Best Actor Oscar, Cillian Murphy would deliver a performance that supersedes his Oppenheimer turn as the best work in his accomplished career?
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
That case, which overturned the conviction of a man convicted under a state law that prevented slave-catching, held that while federal law supersedes state law, states are not required to use their resources to uphold federal laws.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
In his book-length study, Transcendental Style in Film, Paul Schrader argues that for a film in the transcendental style, form supersedes content.
—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
The moral obligation to protect American lives ultimately supersedes diplomatic niceties about sovereignty, particularly when that sovereignty exists more in theory than in practice.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Republicans are fighting the laws in court, while also pushing for a federal law that supersedes the protection.
—The Hill, 9 Aug. 2025
That, noted city planning director David Snow, is the problem with yet another controversial new housing-development measure, the state’s Live Local law, which supersedes local height and density controls in the name of promoting construction of middle-class workforce housing.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
In a true meritocracy, where merit supersedes all else, the H-1B visa program shouldn’t be done by lottery or capped at a quota.
—Doug Melville, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These Who’d have expected that just a year after winning the Best Actor Oscar, Cillian Murphy would deliver a performance that supersedes his Oppenheimer turn as the best work in his accomplished career?
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
That case, which overturned the conviction of a man convicted under a state law that prevented slave-catching, held that while federal law supersedes state law, states are not required to use their resources to uphold federal laws.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supersedes
replaces
Verb
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Although more expensive and labor-intensive, the practice replaces much of the Central Valley’s roughly 500,000 acres of rice with temporary wetlands during the winter, a semblance of how the land would naturally function without dams, and levees and civilization.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The bill replaces the state’s once-a-year test with three shorter exams, to be given at the beginning, middle and end of the school year.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Supersedes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supersedes. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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