superordinate

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Recent Examples of superordinate In addition to eroding public trust in the government, the COVID crisis has made clear that a political system that has been tailored to a single superordinate figure is highly susceptible to disruption, shocks, and arbitrary decision-making. Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2023 Their vision does not reflect the idea that computing can or should be a superordinate realm of scholarship, on the order of the arts or engineering. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024 In close coordination with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as the superordinate body, the Federal Archives is seeking ways to discontinue the obligation to pay fees also for the commercial use of images from the period until 1945. Manolis Vasilakis, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023 Decades of research that followed focused on the benefits of superordinate goals (that supersede any particular group’s interests) including goals to fight a common enemy or to create a common identity. K.n.c., The Economist, 14 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superordinate
Adjective
  • Read more Workplace incivility spikes around elections, expert says at Newsweek event Presidential election causing office unrest?
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Mary Cosby is shedding more light on her son’s ongoing struggle with addiction.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The front-runner in the race for top Republican on the panel appears to be Foxx, the outgoing chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and a senior member of the House Republican conference.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
  • That could change under Trump, especially if senior officials close to Trump bristle at CISA’s oversight.
    Eric Geller, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In 2022, Biden signed into law the first major federal gun reform in three decades, about a month after an 18-year-old man opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 students and two teachers.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • State officials said the new investment is expected to create hundreds of new, high-paying jobs by the end of 2030 and increase Ohio’s role as a major technology hub.
    J.D. Davidson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Dec. 2024

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“Superordinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superordinate. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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