superseded

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Before turning to literature, Wells had studied zoology, and though much of what he had learned has now been superseded, the view of race advanced in this book, for instance, has held up well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 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Guha, Marco Casiraghi and Gang Lyu refer to the continuous destruction of older occupations and industries that are superseded by more modern, innovative and productive models.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"The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot," Trump said at Mar-a-Lago.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 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The A100 has already been superseded by Nvidia’s Hopper generation of chips and its latest Blackwell hardware, with U.S. companies using hundreds of thousands of those processors.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

That is, they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago, and they dwelt in villages not organized under any centralized political authority.

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