Sample Sentences for
supersede
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  • Do you really believe your right to name me supersedes my right to have my own identity?  (source)
    supersedes = causes to be set aside
  • I always thought one of them would have to supersede Daddy eventually.†  (source)
  • But what will you look like to the generations that will supersede you?†  (source)
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  • That was the most popular, soon superseded by Just looked up his picture.†  (source)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.
  • All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow.†  (source)
  • The rules of these holy Books supersede the rules of man, he said.†  (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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