supersede
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But the new structure will supersede the "extremely narrow" rail-and-road Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge downstream on the Yalu River, said Lim Eul-chul, a North Korea expert at Kyungnam University.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Human judgment is going to supersede human expertise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
But through the first week of this year’s event, a question has intruded on the spectacle: When does atmosphere start to supersede tennis?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The grand-jury indictment unsealed on Friday carries state charges that supersede the previous charges announced by the county prosecutor last month.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Faction customs dictate even idle behavior and supersede individual preference.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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The indictment supersedes a previous indictment of Singamas Marketing Director Vick Nam Hing Ma, who was arrested in France last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
But his legacy in our sport supersedes his results.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
Like all service members, he has an obligation to the Constitution and the rule of law that supersedes following the orders of superiors.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2025
The Webb certainly supersedes Hubble in every respect.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
The Will to Live holds man's one chance of this-worldly bliss, and supersedes any care for the remote felicities of any problematic future state.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
Parton was an icon whose music, philanthropy and authenticity superseded genre, class, sexuality, color and politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Liggett Group LLC, where the court agreed in part with the tobacco industry that the congressionally mandated surgeon general’s warning about cigarettes already superseded any state-based failure-to-warn claim.
From Slate ● Jun. 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 Johnson suggests that his work became less popular simply because it was superseded by a more innovative style.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
"The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot," Trump said at Mar-a-Lago.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
However, as has been described in earlier chapters, the classical laws were superseded by quantum laws based on the uncertainty principle.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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In a filing after midnight, the Justice Department sought to add the charge through what it called a superseding criminal complaint, without the typical review and signature of a judge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
None of these proposals grapple with the full weight of how different our new era will be from the relatively placid one it is superseding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Pogacar's victory means he is positioned by many as the greatest cyclist of all time, superseding the achievements and status of Belgian legend Merckx.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Sassoon’s letter also reveals that her office was preparing a superseding indictment adding an “obstruction conspiracy count” to the charges against Adams.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2025
But this consciousness which thinks, i.e. judges and reasons, is something superior to the contrast of physical and psychical: superior, i.e. in so far as it includes and surveys the antithesis, without superseding it.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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