superseded
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Stocks were choppy for months—but again recovered as dot.com mania swept through Wall Street and superseded concerns about the rise in borrowing costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Liggett Group LLC, where the court agreed in part with the tobacco industry that the congressionally mandated surgeon general’s warning about cigarettes already superseded any state-based failure-to-warn claim.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 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The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.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
"The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot," Trump said at Mar-a-Lago.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
That is, they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago, and they dwelt in villages not organized under any centralized political authority.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
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