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Recent Examples of superordinateIn 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 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 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 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
Georgia picked up two more commitments late last week in four-star linebacker Nick Abrams and defensive lineman Valdin Sone and ranks No. 2 in the 247Sports Team Composite ranking, three spots ahead of Texas.
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Marc Weiszer,
The Tennessean,
22 July 2025
Pumpkin Spice Latte and so much more PSL is a common acronym for Pumpkin Spice Latte but has several other meanings, as well.
The idea is to place officers in certain neighborhoods and inside senior buildings.
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Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
27 July 2025
Hubbard, a 30-year-old husband and father living in Dallas, Texas, grew his TikTok account to close to 1 million followers by posting daily videos about the mundane routine of his nine-to-five day job as a senior analyst for a Fortune 500 company.
That announcement largely cleared the field of major potential challengers to Rogers.
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Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
27 July 2025
In 1947: President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act 1947, a major piece of legislation that restructured many of the country’s military and intelligence institutions.
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