superiors

plural of superior
as in bosses
one who is above another in rank, station, or office if a customer is rude to you, report it to your superior and she'll handle it

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Recent Examples of superiors About Premium Content has Country Spy, a light crime series about Marie-Line Maupain, a spy for the French secret service who is abruptly frozen out by her superiors and sent back to her home town. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026 If both parties are PLA members, superiors must step in to mediate the relationship breakdown, and the couple can only get a civil divorce with the military’s approval, which can result in a longer process. Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 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. Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Others objected to a military officer’s setting criteria for civilian superiors. Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026 High achievers seek out new opportunities, consistently deliver strong results and earn the trust of their superiors. Kim Meninger, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 So Parker telephoned the base posing as the doctor of Adams’ supposedly ailing mother and talked the young soldier’s superiors into issuing an emergency furlough. Dan Kelly july 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 Trying to burn down the entire rest of the ecosystem might profit the SEC or Big Ten and their television superiors in the short run, maybe even the long run. Jason Kirk, New York Times, 24 July 2026 Employees go out for after-work parties (nomikai) to bond with their superiors. Tim Brinkhof, Time, 23 July 2026
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Noun
  • Stocks tied to the AI boom slumped on Monday after the three biggest AI bosses warned the frantic pace of model development needed to be slowed.
    Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Attend events, reconnect with former colleagues and reach out to former bosses.
    Michelle Perchuk, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
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  • Clemishire, along with her father, filed a $1 million defamation suit in Dallas County against Morris, his wife, Debbie, the church, its current and former elders, and a church staff member.
    Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • And Democratic elders, including former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have urged their party to treat the threats posed by AI as an acute national security crisis.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Thaci was on trial with three other former KLA leaders who fought Serb forces in the 1998-99 war and are widely regarded as national heroes in Kosovo.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
  • That shift catches most finance and engineering leaders off guard, because by the time the question becomes urgent, there’s already a client waiting, a deadline attached and pressure to just get something working.
    Nick Chandi, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The title refers not only to the horror film my protagonist, Maya, is trying to make, but also to the city’s new masters and to those living in a zombified state of willful ignorance.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • This year’s Cannes Film Festival was overstuffed with masters of European and Asian cinema — Hamaguchi, Farhadi, Almodóvar, Kore-eda, Mungiu, Pawlikowski, Zvyagintsev and so on.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Superiors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superiors. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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