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Critics seemed to agree that they had, and that New York, for the first time, had superseded Paris as avant-garde art’s new frontier.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Kings had superseded priests as the rulers by about 3000 BCE, although in all cases kings were closely linked to the power of the priesthood.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Subsequent experiments had superseded it, and in some ways contradicted its results.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So that night it looked as though FIFA's craving for a Pienaar moment had superseded concern for the welfare of an old man.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

Their appeal against the authority of Church and Bible was not to intuition but to science; and they were aided by Lyell's demonstration, in 1830, that geology had superseded Genesis.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May