Sample Sentences forsupersede (editor-reviewed)
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Engineers used slide rules before they were superseded by calculators.superseded = replaced
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Faction customs dictate even idle behavior and supersede individual preference. (source)supersede = take the place of; or cause to be set aside
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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persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. (source)superseded = replaced
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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
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I always thought one of them would have to supersede Daddy eventually.† (source)
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He pointed out—writing in a foolish, facetious tone—that the perfection of mechanical appliances must ultimately supersede limbs; the perfection of chemical devices, digestion; that such organs as hair, external nose, teeth, ears, and chin were no longer essential parts of the human being, and that the tendency of natural selection would lie in the direction of their steady diminution through the coming ages.† (source)
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All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow.† (source)
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But what will you look like to the generations that will supersede you?† (source)
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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)
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Queue was burning now, the orange-red flames superseding the blue glow.† (source)
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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.
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That was the most popular, soon superseded by Just looked up his picture.† (source)
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He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.† (source)
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I have one saving grace which supersedes all the sins I have committed.† (source)
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They hold their desires as an irreducible primary, as a fact superseding all facts.† (source)
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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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