superior
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Decorated pots were also produced using higher quality clay, suggesting that the migrant potters were allowed access to scarce, superior materials for their work.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
If you agree that it is a superior long-term strategy, there’s no good reason to wait until Halloween to begin following it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Each company retains its development and commercial rights for their assets, which likely signals AstraZeneca believes its own approaches are superior to PD-1xVEGF, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
On the gap between the sides, Tuchel said: "We saw no gap except for the technical execution. In the last 20 metres, they were superior than us."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Since Kappe was a lieutenant, and Neubauer's superior, he felt obligated to follow his orders.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
As they continued to gather intelligence from Kuzichkin, Mr. McCredie and his superiors knew that they had to be extremely cautious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
But he cannot escape the dynamic dictated to him by his culture in which subordinates must respect the dictates of their superiors.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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