supersede
verb (used with object)
to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
had superseded
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past perfectof supersede.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Critics seemed to agree that they had, and that New York, for the first time, had superseded Paris as avant-garde art’s new frontier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Kings had superseded priests as the rulers by about 3000 BCE, although in all cases kings were closely linked to the power of the priesthood.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Subsequent experiments had superseded it, and in some ways contradicted its results.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2015
So that night it looked as though FIFA's craving for a Pienaar moment had superseded concern for the welfare of an old man.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2013
A self-regarding system of relief had superseded charity, and it was productive of nothing but alms, large or small, isolated and unmethodic, given with a wrong bias, and thus almost inevitably with evil results.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
