superseded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Our yearning to forget is superseded by our desire to understand why things are the way they are.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

Church scorned French Impressionism as slapdash, and Ms. Johnson suggests that his work became less popular simply because it was superseded by a more innovative style.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 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Guha, Marco Casiraghi and Gang Lyu refer to the continuous destruction of older occupations and industries that are superseded by more modern, innovative and productive models.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

The A100 has already been superseded by Nvidia’s Hopper generation of chips and its latest Blackwell hardware, with U.S. companies using hundreds of thousands of those processors.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

At the one extreme, the Tasmanians continued to use stone tools superseded tens of thousands of years earlier in Europe and replaced in most of mainland Australia too.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond