supervenes

present tense third-person singular of supervene
as in follows
to come after in time it was not the slow-spreading cancer that caused his death but a supervening heart attack

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  • Anything else should be treated as the equivalent of the God-of-the-gaps argument, and what follows is an explanation as to why.
    Big Think, Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Based on Devantez’s award-winning 2020 short film of the same name, which was a SXSW official selection and won Best Comedy at the HollyShorts Film Festival, Basic follows Gloria (Park) and Nick (Smith), who go through a painful breakup.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Scherger succeeds Michael Casamento, who, after 10 years as Amcor's CFO, has decided to return home to Australia to be closer to his family on a full-time basis.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Soria, who is 63, succeeds Kennedy, an accountant and former Urban Corps finance official who took over as CEO in 2020.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • The new design replaces these metals with riboflavin, which is stable even at the high pH levels needed for glucose electrolytes.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Nothing, however, replaces cruising around stacks of books at a real bookstore, thumbing through the tomes that catch your eye.
    Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Supervenes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supervenes. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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