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The participials in ed, are superseding some of them, at least in popular practice: as, contaminated, for contaminate, defiled; reiterated, for reiterate, repeated; situated, for situate, placed; attenuated, for attenuate, made thin or slender.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Solid-wheel mills are superseding all others in this country, and are being exported largely to all parts of the world, in sizes from 10 to 30 feet in diameter.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

Ladies’ colleges, with professors for every branch of instruction, are superseding the old-fashioned seminary. 

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King

Views of the Holy Land are superseding even the Holy Scriptures; and a pictorial Blackstone is teaching the ideas of the sucking lawyers how to shoot.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

The bedding was mainly of down quilts, which are superseding fur robes and blankets for winter use because of their lightness and warmth and the small compass into which they may be compressed.

From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Stuck, Hudson