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Recent Examples of superordinateFurther, recent research suggests that highlighting superordinate goals (shared by everyone in the group) early in the conversation helps teams navigate disagreement later.—
Alison Wood Brooks,
Harvard Business Review,
17 Aug. 2026 Their vision does not reflect the idea that computing can or should be a superordinate realm of scholarship, on the order of the arts or engineering.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
19 Mar. 2024 In addition to eroding public trust in the government, the COVID crisis has made clear that a political system that has been tailored to a single superordinate figure is highly susceptible to disruption, shocks, and arbitrary decision-making.—
Yanzhong Huang,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Feb. 2023 Decades of research that followed focused on the benefits of superordinate goals (that supersede any particular group’s interests) including goals to fight a common enemy or to create a common identity.—
K.n.c.,
The Economist,
14 Aug. 2019
Designed in South Korea and sold in Europe, the Bobber is aimed at riders who want their daily commute to have a little more character.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Oct. 2026
Bats are incredibly diverse—across all mammals, bats include more species than all but one other group, rodents, says Rachel Page, a scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.