superlativeness

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Noun
  • All of Russia is centered around Putin’s rule, and Putin is represented as the powerful male leader upon whose shoulders Russian greatness rests.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Jan. 2026
  • While these names are synonymous with game-time greatness, they’re also remembered for their near-maniacal approach to preparation.
    Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Her answer landed like a mic drop at Golden Eve, a new primetime special airing Thursday on CBS that celebrates work defined by excellence and lasting impact.
    Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The recognition places Dogwood among a small group of restaurants nationwide singled out for excellence in their first year on the dining scene.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Watson made his biggest scientific discovery as a young man, only 25 years old, and his sense of his own abilities, his own specialness, seemed never to mature beyond a young man’s bravado.
    Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • That does bring to mind the specialness of painting itself as a discipline.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trump has taken this tradition to its logical extreme by exempting from legal consequences his supporters and those following his instructions—seeming to assert his supremacy over not just federal but state laws, which exceeds even the wide powers conferred by the Constitution.
    Bernadette Meyler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Conference supremacy After the SEC's 10 ranked teams, the Big Ten is next with seven.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Education was considered an individual pursuit marked by moral excellency and only the students who did the best in school would have proceeded to higher education.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Zurich said the Game Changer Award pays tribute to excellency in the film business with a focus on leaders that not only cherish change and forward-thinking approaches in the business, but also stand for the DNA of what cinema has represented since its invention.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Together with its other untapped resources, this presents yet another attractive trait to any suitor in pursuit of technological and industrial preeminence.
    Chloe Demrovsky, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But these strengths have faded, and with them, the sense that American preeminence is a fact of nature.
    Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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“Superlativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superlativeness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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