as in replaced
to take the place of
that edition of the dictionary that you have has been superseded by a more recent one
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Recent Examples of superseded
Every Gothic cathedral is the product of ideas that altered over generations, ambitions abandoned or superseded, compromises with ballooning budgets, labor shortages, or bottlenecks in the supply chain from quarries and forests and mines.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
Snapchat would, in fact, be superseded as the political-comms fad du jour, but Democratic hand-wringing about the Party’s visibility in a fragmented attention economy has never gone out of style, and Swalwell has often been seen as an exemplar of how to be everywhere, all at once.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
Our actual political landscape, in which government officials are adding journalists to top-secret group chats or running around in wrong-sized shoes as a form of flattery, has too far superseded anything even the most cutting jokester could ever have dreamed up.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
While never officially revoked, the armistice was, in practice, superseded by a borders shift during the Six Day War in 1967.
—Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Indeed, concerns about the impact that the oil price spike will have on growth superseded the worries about consumer prices, echoing Powell’s worry that hiking now won’t fix energy costs and could cause more trouble later.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
The new settlement also superseded a 2018 judgment against the corporation.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Their value rapidly decreases as they are superseded by the next generation of chips, meaning that the ultimate backstop for all of the data-center debt—selling the data center itself—is not actually a backstop.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2026
What if it eventually gets superseded by a fuller theory, just as quantum mechanics supplanted Newtonian physics a century ago?
—Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
Snapchat would, in fact, be superseded as the political-comms fad du jour, but Democratic hand-wringing about the Party’s visibility in a fragmented attention economy has never gone out of style, and Swalwell has often been seen as an exemplar of how to be everywhere, all at once.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
Our actual political landscape, in which government officials are adding journalists to top-secret group chats or running around in wrong-sized shoes as a form of flattery, has too far superseded anything even the most cutting jokester could ever have dreamed up.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
While never officially revoked, the armistice was, in practice, superseded by a borders shift during the Six Day War in 1967.
—Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
Indeed, concerns about the impact that the oil price spike will have on growth superseded the worries about consumer prices, echoing Powell’s worry that hiking now won’t fix energy costs and could cause more trouble later.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
The new settlement also superseded a 2018 judgment against the corporation.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Their value rapidly decreases as they are superseded by the next generation of chips, meaning that the ultimate backstop for all of the data-center debt—selling the data center itself—is not actually a backstop.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superseded
replaced
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Saving the night sky is more an investment over time as light fixtures are updated, old lighting is replaced with LEDs and motion timers are installed.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Cora, who was an infielder on the Red Sox 2007 World Series championship team and managed them to a franchise-record 108 wins and another title in ‘18, will be replaced on an interim basis by Chad Tracy.—
Jimmy Golen,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Superseded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superseded. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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