supplantformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Replacing and exchanging
alternate
alternatively
bargain something away
behalf
change over
compensation
instead of
lieu
make up for something
name
novate
shoe
someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom
spare
sub out something
substitutability
substitutable
substitute
substitution
substitutive

Examples of superseded

superseded

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Should they insist that workers have an "affirmative" right to better work conditions, a right that superseded their employers' freedom to contract?
The essays had already been superseded by specialist treatises and by much bigger encyclopedias.
Today, however, the variable target function method has been superseded largely by the more efficient torsion angle dynamics algorithm.
It has now been superseded by other collections of data,19 but this does not diminish its earlier importance.
The prevalent view was that the concept of the equality of states as a fundamental principle of modern international law should be superseded.
But the wider socio-cultural context in which folk-song once had its place had been superseded.
The original magnitude scale served its purpose at the time, but has since been superseded by other, more physically meaningful, measurements.
Original saga characters may have been superseded or transformed into new characters, such as witches, by diabolisation.
Here the argument of competence and respecting patient values must be superseded by necessary medical paternalism.
The true viscosity and thermal conductivity are invariably superseded by sub-grid models.
The shelf-life of drugs can exceed 20 years; devices tend to be superseded within 2 to 3 years.
Some of the studies are now over 20 years old and probably used diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia that have been superseded.
The culture of the ear was superseded by that of writing.
In fact, the demand for additional tracks was such that sixteen-track was superseded by twenty-four-track at most studios by the mid-1970s.
The insights of these writers have not really been superseded.
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