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Recent Examples of superordinateTheir 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 close coordination with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as the superordinate body, the Federal Archives is seeking ways to discontinue the obligation to pay fees also for the commercial use of images from the period until 1945.—Manolis Vasilakis, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023 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
In a Commonwealth Athletic Conference match, Shawsheen Tech bested Innovation Academy, 3-0, as senior Francesca Reardon earned seven kills and four aces.
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Kristina Banahan,
Boston Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
The senior scored on touchdown runs of 75 and 7 yards to open the scoring in the third quarter.
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