as in extremely
to a great degree
my computer is super slow this morning
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as in huge
unusually large
drinks come in three sizes: medium, large, or super
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Recent Examples of super
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
The flames were really super hot.
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Briauna Brown,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
26 June 2026
Powerful alien super-heroines battling extraterrestrial threats.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
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The chief support is unbeaten Emiliano Vargas against Bryce Mills at super lightweight, with a pair of prospect bouts filling out the bill.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
The flames were really super hot.
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Briauna Brown,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
Adjective
Starship is SpaceX's super-heavy lift rocket, designed to be completely reusable.
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Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
26 June 2026
Powerful alien super-heroines battling extraterrestrial threats.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for super
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Now, multiple residents are left worried about what's to come next week with extremely hot temperatures in the forecast.
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Despite being the fourth largest economy in the world — the home of Hollywood and Silicon Valley — California’s budget is extremely dependent on the state’s most prosperous residents.
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Authors think humans might just be able to leverage a few tools at our disposal to change the course of huge weather events.
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Technology companies are spending big to incorporate artificial intelligence into their businesses and to build huge data centers.
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At age 34, this very well could be the final World Cup for the 2014 Golden Boot winner at the competition.
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Until very recently, children in West Texas public schools were punished, even beaten, for speaking Spanish; today bilingual education is thriving.
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The only food stall that was open during kickoff sold turkey legs for $23, a smash cheeseburger for $20 and a giant western sausage for $20.
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The bodice also included a giant bow at the neck.
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This butter-yellow tunic feels cheerful, airy, and incredibly chic for summer.
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The producers are amazing, the writers are amazing, the director's amazing and Netflix has been nothing but incredibly supportive.
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While running your air conditioner is likely a must, there are actually other ways to keep your home cooler that don't involve blasting your AC or a gigantic electric bill.
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Those include partnering to develop digital workflows and their joint-ownership in the Terafab facility that plans to produce a gigantic one terawatt a year in compute hardware.
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Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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The vast majority of those flights — 80% of them — have been dedicated to building out the company's Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.
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In the final days of the war, the Nazis sought to destroy the party’s vast collection of membership cards and took them to a pulp mill near Munich for that reason.
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“Super.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/super. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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