as in excellent
of the very best kind
the New England town meeting is a superlative example of grassroots democracy
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Recent Examples of superlative
CBS News,
27 May 2026
That City managed to sign Shaw to a new, fairly lengthy contract for a 29-year-old striker, even one with Shaw’s superlative talents, speaks volumes about the club’s long-term ambitions.
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Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
Colby Gordon,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Apr. 2026
Florida is no longer first in men’s college basketball, sad to say (after the Gators lost), but our state is superlative in so many other ways.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
The superlative performance by the 35-year-old former Cy Young Award winner came after Cole had allowed two hits over six scoreless innings against Tampa Bay in his first major league start since Game 5 of the 2024 World Series against the Dodgers.
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CBS News,
27 May 2026
That City managed to sign Shaw to a new, fairly lengthy contract for a 29-year-old striker, even one with Shaw’s superlative talents, speaks volumes about the club’s long-term ambitions.
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Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
Noun
The District 23-5A girls soccer coaches recently selected their all-district teams and superlative winners.
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Colby Gordon,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Apr. 2026
Florida is no longer first in men’s college basketball, sad to say (after the Gators lost), but our state is superlative in so many other ways.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superlative
Adjective
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Turkey evened it in the 10th minute with an excellent two-man game from Baris Alper Yilmaz and Güler, the 21-year-old Real Madrid rising star.
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The nearby town of Dolores makes an excellent home base.
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Pirate ship is no exaggeration.
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But the fastest swimming speed claims are almost certainly indefensible exaggerations.
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Food and drink, of course, are among the attractions of a New Orleans journey, and the superb offerings at the hotel—under the direction of Executive Chef Dario Montelvere, a Robb Report culinary master—reflect the city’s heritage, from regional cuisine and local seafood to steakhouse dishes.
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With half-time approaching, Morocco equalised when captain Achraf Hakimi bundled in from close range only for Haiti to reclaim the lead through a superb Wilson Isidor strike from the edge of the box.
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Young salespeople hawked their company’s wares with the hyperbole associated with a consumer business rather than selling business enterprise solutions.
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There is a one in a million chance — that hyperbole is fair — of finding a piece of grass that isn’t up to snuff for the Bos family.
Adjective
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So many wonderful dinners with friends and nights out on the town.
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Soccer – football in much of the world – has a long and wonderful tradition of singing, whether that be in praise of their favorite players, mocking opponents (sometimes, brutally so) or simply urging their team forward.
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The 50mm object lenses admit plenty of light and the 18x magnification brings the cosmos closer than some telescopes.
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To build the dataset, Cheng used a DSLR camera paired with a high-magnification zoom lens to photograph mosquitoes and generate training data for the computer vision model.
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But even when Thomson, a terrific baseball lifer, was gone, Bryce Harper was still there in Philly and so was Kyle Schwarber.
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Klepov, who turns 18 on Saturday, had a terrific first OHL season, with 37 goals and 60 assists in 67 games to win the league’s scoring title.
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The navy did not say how the 16 were encountered, and the Salvadoran military did not respond to requests for elaboration.
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Blue home shirts, with not much detail or elaboration, beyond a red collar and some other brief splashes of colour.
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“Superlative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superlative. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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