supervene

Example Sentences

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“It is incumbent upon the SEC to evaluate the terms and conditions of said alleged supervening donation … whether the same has the effect of mitigating, if not curing, the violation it found,” the court said.

From Washington Times

Amazon’s lawyers wrote that working with Allen had become impractical because of “supervening events” — talent wouldn’t associate with him, “renewed allegations” had risen against him, and the director’s own “controversial comments” were an issue.

From The Verge

“Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president ‘no’ because of the supervening demands of the law,” Starr wrote.

From Salon

Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.

From Washington Post

Machine translation necessarily supervenes on previous human effort; otherwise there wouldn’t be the parallel corpora that the machines need to do their work.

From New York Times