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Recent Examples of supersedesThe grand jury indictment supersedes the criminal complaint and allows the criminal case to skip the preliminary hearing phase and move toward a trial.—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025 So the longevity of her dream somehow supersedes Julia’s dream?—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 Modifications to gravity, which add additional parameters but have failed to create a consistent picture that supersedes general relativity.—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supersedes
replaces
Verb
Southwestern queso replaces the skillet beef and white skillet quesos, the restaurant chain said.
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Helena Wegner,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
Auburn replaces its entire starting five — and its head coach.
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