superlativeness

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Noun
  • Acknowledging his greatness does not mean forgetting that his philosophy would have allowed—at least in the short term—the continuation of Black Americans’ second-class citizenship.
    Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Lane, who helped Wyatt break a 52-year playoff drought, has commanded respect with versatility, elite speed, and all-around offensive greatness.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • For the next decade, Arthur and Alyssa cycled through coaches and competitions, all in pursuit of excellence.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • De Zerbi’s excellence as a coach has never been in doubt but this job ending on a sour note is unfortunate timing.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 14 Feb. 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
  • Around this time, the city-state of Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, was battling with the Roman Republic for supremacy in the Mediterranean.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The pastoralist Maasai people, for instance, who also live in the region, have successfully been vying for supremacy with lions for hundreds of years.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 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
  • There’s no reason, given Chicago’s clear preeminence among Midwestern cities and an abundance of infrastructure and natural resources, that Illinois shouldn’t be leading the charge.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
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“Superlativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superlativeness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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