Thesaurus results for SUPERSEDING

superseding

verb

present participle of supersede

as in replacing

to take the place of that edition of the dictionary that you have has been superseded by a more recent one

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Recent Examples of superseding Federal prosecutors brought charges against Cuban military personnel in 2003, but Castro himself was not named as a defendant until the superseding indictment filed this year. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026 Thus far, this trend is complementing new-aircraft sales, not superseding them. — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2026 So far, that hasn’t resulted in larger robots suddenly superseding humans at sports. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2026 Ahmed, 42, and Suhail, 49, each were charged in the third superseding indictment with counts of wire fraud, embezzlement, kickback conspiracy and money laundering. — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026 The 30-page superseding indictment accuses the couple of overseeing a system of political repression that relied on Venezuela's military, intelligence agencies and security forces to torture their opponents, silence dissidents and maintain power. — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Maduro was charged by superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit torture and Flores was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit torture and one count of narcoterrorism. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 The superseding indictment was expected, and Cole was in court on Thursday for his arraignment, according to a court calendar. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2026 In a superseding indictment filed in 2025, Michael Jarrett Jarrett and Davindra Ramanan were charged with stalking and other charges stemming from the July incident. — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2026

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replacing

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This is because agents excel at replacing and taking care of things people would rather not do.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
The collection was made by replacing the manganese with varying amounts of different metals, including iron, titanium, and vanadium.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026

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