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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
Newsweek contacted the Texas Agriculture Commissioner for more information via email.
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Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Cannon-Brookes is urging Australia to show more ambition on climate action, even as the new government legislates plans to strengthen the country’s carbon emissions cuts.
So far this decade — according to Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science — the number of days that lows failed to dip below 80 degrees has already doubled compared to the 2000’s.
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Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Although the recognition of other countries is also a key component of obtaining statehood, any Palestinian state established today would not meet the minimal criteria, according to Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute.
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Michele Chabin,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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