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superiority

[suh-peer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-, soo-] / səˌpɪər iˈɔr ɪ ti, -ˈɒr-, sʊ- /


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Their superiority would have been better reflected had they won by two.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

All of them have top-flight or international experience, as well as physicality to their game, but even those additions did little to prevent Arsenal from asserting their superiority on Friday night.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

But El-Sayed ably weaponized these resources against Stevens, making her financial superiority the core of his argument against her.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

“You have a feeling of superiority in a car like this,” he said, a man clearly enjoying his work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

"Obviously none of the other materials . . . would produce a comb possessing the many excellent qualities and inherent superiorities of a comb made of celluloid," Hyatt wrote in one of his patent applications.

From Scientific American ● May 29, 2011

All of the expected prestige names turn up at the top, but the study is nonetheless full of fascinating comparisons and subtle superiorities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adding up what is known of most of these factors, the margins, evident superiorities, palpable weaknesses of the three belligerent air forces stack up somewhat as follows.

From Time Magazine Archive

By right of these superiorities, the eagle reigns as king among birds.

From By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers

The mental faculties of Louis-Napoleon present many great superiorities and great deficiencies.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton


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