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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of supervene.

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Examples

  • No one called Pakistan to account, and no one was likely to – if 9/11 had not supervened.

    Afghanistan: Our mandate for action is finally exhausted | Observer editorial 2011

  • Passion had supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimaeras without object or bottom.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • As skinner highlights there is nothing outside the state more supreme (other then I would say cash, which is the system inside and out and what everyone worships and what is shared between states, hence why it could be understood to be external) thus within the confines of the system where political reputation is supervened upon by adherence to the evolutionarily dictated pc compass you need to abide by spirit of the times.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Pius XI was not unaware of the fact that in the forty years that had supervened since the publication of the Leonine encyclical the historical scene had altered considerably.

    Mater et Magistra 2008

  • As skinner highlights there is nothing outside the state more supreme (other then I would say cash, which is the system inside and out and what everyone worships and what is shared between states, hence why it could be understood to be external) thus within the confines of the system where political reputation is supervened upon by adherence to the evolutionarily dictated pc compass you need to abide by spirit of the times.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • In this case the urine throughout was black, thin, and watery; coma supervened; there was aversion to food, aversion to food, despondency, and insomnolency; irritability, restlessness; she was of a melancholic turn of mind.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • Many persons, and more especially children, had convulsions from the commencement; and they had fever, and the convulsions supervened upon the fevers; in most cases they were protracted, but free from danger, unless in those who were in a deadly state from other complaints.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • On the twenty-seventh, free from fever; bowels constipated; not long afterwards violent pain of the right hip-joint for a considerable time; fevers afterwards supervened; urine watery.

    Of The Epidemics 2007

  • Thus a few ghostly moments supervened, when they were all confusedly staring without knowing why.

    Little Dorrit 2007

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