supervened

past tense of supervene
as in followed
to come after in time it was not the slow-spreading cancer that caused his death but a supervening heart attack

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Verb
  • Our first real date was ice skating at Topanga Plaza, followed by dinner at Carl’s Jr.
    Marcus Ryle, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Private equity has followed a rocky path, with leveraged buyouts posting only an 8% return last year, the lowest in over a decade.
    Don Muir, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • That agreement meant management could bring in new technologies without warning or input from the West Coast dockworkers who would use it or be replaced by it.
    Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The Pacifica fleet has been retired and replaced with Jaguar i-Paces, but those cars are going out of production by the end of 2024.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • The bottom line Last month, stocks succeeded in defying gravity, soaring instead of letting the historical weight of their poor performance in September bring them down.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Despite these hurdles, Flora has succeeded thanks to their team's diverse background and support from partners like InsureTech NY.
    Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Supervened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supervened. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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