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  • v  take place as an additional or unexpected development

  • If it can not, one may be certain chaos wil supervene; and hard on the heels of chaos will come the Sino-Soviet bloc.
  • The so-called ''American Establishment'' has sought to construct a public philosophy that would supervene the unbridled pursuit of self interest by economic and bureaucratic .
  • The idea is that mental states can supervene on any of a broad class of physical substrates.

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