supervening

verb

present participle of supervene
as in following
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supervening
  1. following
  2. succeeding
Verb
  • Boss Arne Slot has also moved on, following an underwhelming second season at the helm.
    — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But Ukraine has a layered array of defenses against the relatively slow-flying ones, and its counter-drone expertise has been in demand following the US-Iran war.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of following
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  • Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen or heard publicly since succeeding his father, former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike when the war began.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • There is nobody else at his level who has a more vested interest in Google succeeding.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of succeeding
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“Supervening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supervening. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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