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  • The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction.  (source)
    superseded = replaced
  • I always thought one of them would have to supersede Daddy eventually.†  (source)
  • That was the most popular, soon superseded by Just looked up his picture.†  (source)
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  • All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow.†  (source)
  • Still, it never pleased her that any authority could supersede her own.†  (source)
  • I will use every means at my disposal to bring her safely from the ants' lair, and this oath supersedes any previous oath I have made.†  (source)
  • Queue was burning now, the orange-red flames superseding the blue glow.†  (source)
  • The law for father and son and mother and daughter is not the law of love: it is the law of revolution, of emancipation, of final supersession of the old and worn-out by the young and capable.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
  • Panic had been superseded by guilt.†  (source)
  • But what will you look like to the generations that will supersede you?†  (source)
  • I have one saving grace which supersedes all the sins I have committed.†  (source)
  • They hold their desires as an irreducible primary, as a fact superseding all facts.†  (source)
  • The next phase of the supersession of Henchard in Lucetta's heart was an experiment in calling on her performed by Farfrae with some apparent trepidation.†  (source)
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