supersede
Example Sentences
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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The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.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.
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
Tuesday's ruling then superseded this and became a final decision on the hotel's operation.
From BBC
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