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superior

[suh-peer-ee-er, soo-] / səˈpɪər i ər, sʊ- /




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His mother, in turn, had been introduced to the store by her grandmother, Georgia Bullock, a decades-long Pasadena resident and the first woman to serve as a municipal and superior court judge in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

If you have the ability to latch on to a superior strategy and close your eyes then that could earn you an extra percentage point or two in the long run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

When malware spreads across the internet, the response isn’t to slow technology, but to innovate faster, creating solutions that are technologically superior to the malicious software.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Boxing can produce shocks, but Garcia's superior amateur pedigree, greater experience at the highest level and natural talent were, as many predicted, simply too much for Benn.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Since Kappe was a lieutenant, and Neubauer's superior, he felt obligated to follow his orders.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

He also raised safety concerns with his superiors.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Hochman said Flores simply could have taken notes on the inappropriate comments and turned them in to superiors or the independent inspector general, which strikes me as either sweetly naive or disingenuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

First-year mids, Crew said, are actually required to read two news articles daily, and to discuss them with their superiors.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Those officers "could either on their own initiative or following orders from their superiors" help "facilitate an escape that would make it impossible for the accused to be available to justice", he wrote.

From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026

He was complacent and insecure, daring in the administrative stratagems he employed to bring himself to the attention of his superiors and craven in his concern that his schemes might all backfire.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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