superseded

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Our yearning to forget is superseded by our desire to understand why things are the way they are.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

By “Schumpeterian creative destruction,” Evercore authors Krishna Guha, Marco Casiraghi and Gang Lyu refer to the continuous destruction of older occupations and industries that are superseded by more modern, innovative and productive models.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

Radio’s role as kingmaker was superseded, first by streaming services and then by TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall