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- verb Common misspelling of
supersede .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take the place or move into the position of
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Examples
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"supercede" and wasn't findable in that part of the dictionary, that's all.
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"The violations of human rights supercede everything else," said one Western official.
U.S. Probes Afghan Abuse Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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The economy and terror-threat supercede questions that boiled the Clinton era.
Waldo Jaquith - Will your core beliefs switch with the presidency? 2009
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EPA's political goal is to grab power to supercede state drilling regulation.
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The argument that such low-fat diet advocates as Pritikin and Ornish have been using all along, so it seems to me, is not that you cannot lose weight on a high-fat diet but that there are many other benefits to low-fat diets that supercede just pure weight loss.
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Conversely, many individuals believe that their private self-interests supercede the national self-interest, which, by definition, is non-consensual.
Political Beliefs and Self-Deception, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Was this one of those shiny, artificial fabrics which were to supercede all natural fibres in the bright modern world of the 50s.
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The move to apply for administration before next Monday's court hearing will supercede the winding-up order.
Portsmouth's bills could cause the lights to go out at Fratton Park 2012
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To argue against this is essentially to argue that your religion of equality should supercede science and logic.
Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Does this law supercede Federal decisions on how and when to enforce such laws?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law 2010
stpeter commented on the word supercede
I think you mean supersede, no? From Latin super (over) and sedere (to sit).
December 31, 2006
weiss commented on the word supercede
Both forms are in the dictionary, supercede and supersede, same definition.
January 3, 2007
stpeter commented on the word supercede
Usually I ain't a pedant, but I guess about supersede I am! :-)
January 3, 2007