supersede
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Quantum computers will not supersede existing machines, as there are many tasks they are not suited to.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
But the US actions will "supersede" the Canadian case, Wednesday's statement said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
Those laws often allow the state’s housing agenda to supersede preferences of the municipality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
Any beneficiary designations you have set up will supersede whatever is listed in a will.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 14, 2026
Her esteemed position in the community, with the church, and as someone who could speak almost unaccented English seemed to supersede her position as a woman.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The indictment supersedes a previous indictment of Singamas Marketing Director Vick Nam Hing Ma, who was arrested in France last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro signed off on the new indictment unsealed on Tuesday, which supersedes the previous charges.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Like all service members, he has an obligation to the Constitution and the rule of law that supersedes following the orders of superiors.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2025
The Webb certainly supersedes Hubble in every respect.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
But first let me make you better acquainted with the gentleman who supersedes you.
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
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in part with the tobacco industry that the congressionally mandated surgeon general’s warning about cigarettes already superseded any state-based failure-to-warn claim.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
Our yearning to forget is superseded by our desire to understand why things are the way they are.
From Salon ● May 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The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.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"The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot," Trump said at Mar-a-Lago.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
He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz.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
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Pogacar's victory means he is positioned by many as the greatest cyclist of all time, superseding the achievements and status of Belgian legend Merckx.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
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 ● Dec. 5, 2025
Before Chutkan set a briefing schedule, Smith obtained a superseding indictment, paring down the charges to remove allegations the Supreme Court held were absolutely immune.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
Emily Johnson initially said three weeks, but then cautioned that there could be a superseding indictment on the horizon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
Not by proving their inward incoherence does one refute philosophies—every human being is incoherent—but only by superseding them by other philosophies more satisfactory.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
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