Example Sentences

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Numerous academics and free-speech groups rallied behind Ms. Lopez Prater after the school’s administrators condemned the lecture as “undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic,” declaring that respect for Muslim students “should have superseded academic freedom.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 16, 2023

Ozanne, who operates in the most liberal-leaning county in the state, opened his filing by asking the court to find that newer statutes have superseded the ban.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Still, Moon got the point; his production should have superseded any qualifiers.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021

I’ve been simultaneously fascinated with and frustrated by why dinosaurs have superseded most fossil mammals as the objects of our prehistoric adoration.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2015

“They made themselves my friends,” said I, “when they supposed me to have superseded them; and when Sarah Pocket, Miss Georgiana, and Mistress Camilla were not my friends, I think.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens