superseded

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Our yearning to forget is superseded by our desire to understand why things are the way they are.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

Church scorned French Impressionism as slapdash, and Ms. Johnson suggests that his work became less popular simply because it was superseded by a more innovative style.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

By “Schumpeterian creative destruction,” Evercore authors Krishna Guha, Marco Casiraghi and Gang Lyu refer to the continuous destruction of older occupations and industries that are superseded by more modern, innovative and productive models.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

Tuesday's ruling then superseded this and became a final decision on the hotel's operation.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz.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