supersede

Example Sentences

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Those laws often allow the state’s housing agenda to supersede preferences of the municipality.

From The Wall Street Journal

Any beneficiary designations you have set up will supersede whatever is listed in a will.

From MarketWatch

The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.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

The plasticity of digital information is superseding earlier modes of expression and expertise, as the printing press did the scribe.

From The Wall Street Journal

County counsel Dawyn R. Harrison told the supervisors the ordinance “would most likely be challenged on the supremacy clause,” which holds that federal law supersedes state and local law.

From Los Angeles Times