superordinate
adjective
su·per·or·di·nate
ˌsü-pər-ˈȯrd-nət 
-ˈȯr-də-nət,
-ˈȯr-də-ˌnāt
: superior in rank, class, or status
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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.
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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
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
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“Superordinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superordinate. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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