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Recent Examples of supersedes
This action supersedes any prior notices which may have been received related to grant termination.
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James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
The new guidance supersedes previous guidelines published in February 2024.
—PC Magazine, 29 Nov. 2025
The indictment, which supersedes charges filed in April, sends the case directly to trial and bypasses a preliminary hearing where both sides would normally present evidence and testimony to a judge.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
Lunday stressed the new memo supersedes all previous guidance on the issue.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2025
The grand jury indictment supersedes the criminal complaint and allows the criminal case to skip the preliminary hearing phase and move toward a trial.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
So the longevity of her dream somehow supersedes Julia’s dream?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Modifications to gravity, which add additional parameters but have failed to create a consistent picture that supersedes general relativity.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
The moral obligation to protect American lives ultimately supersedes diplomatic niceties about sovereignty, particularly when that sovereignty exists more in theory than in practice.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supersedes
replaces
Verb
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Despite his level-headedness, Mike is mightily discontent with the low-wattage gigs that are arranged for him by, of all people, his dentist (Fisher Stevens), who soon replaces that absent tooth.—
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Landis replaces KevinWallace, who retired in December after 40 seasons as a head coach in Kentucky.—
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“Supersedes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supersedes. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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