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n. - Act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be of a higher rank or class.

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  • The phenomenon is called supersedure and a sizeable number of celebrities and social figures would vouch for its existence.
  • We are optimists and realists, we take pride in our supersedure over pre-natal blemishes …
  • This was hard mind-work for me, but I mastered the situation and escaped supersedure and punishment.
  • Absconding swarm, American foulbrood, Braula coeca, buff comb, Demaree ('the method of swarm control that separates the queen from most of the brood within the same hive'),...
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